Bill,You make me very glad that I am using older hardware with older chips / CPU ! I think the most recent desktop rig that I'm running is circa 2009. A laptop may be from about a year later. They are powerful enough for the vast majority of what I do, computing wise. I've also got a decent supply of spare parts. Maybe there is some way to block or turn off said chips, or parts of what they do, but now I'm even less interested in upgrading.
Jordan
. I do think that anyone who thinks anything they do on a computer connected to the internet is really private is nuts.
Furthermore, if it is true that Intel chips have for some time have had built-in 3G capabilities . . . . . then it doesn't matter whether you are connected to the internet or not. They know what you're doing!
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1816242/secret-intel-chip-snoops-backdoor-access.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1816242/secret-intel-chip-snoops-backdoor-access.html
http://www.techeye.net/chips/intel-responds-to-always-on-3g-processor-conspiracy http://www.techeye.net/chips/intel-responds-to-always-on-3g-processor-conspiracyIntel's 3G capabilities have been discussed since 2013. I mean, given that, who cares what MS collects? Our machines are not private at the hardware level. If anything in those articles is true - - I can't tell!