2012-05-17, 06:08 AM
I don't think anyone can or should be expected to know every single thing their computer may or may not be doing. Considering that it would require exact knowledge of the behavior of the hardware, firmware, and software. So basically, you would have to design and construct your computer's hardware and firmware from scratch, and only ever run software that either you yourself have written or which is open source and the entire code base of which you have read and fully understood. I don't think there's a person alive who could do that and achieve a minimum level of functionality expected of a modern computing device. You will always be operating under the trust that someone else has not told your computer to do something malicious.