EFI Update Question

Hey all.
I just have a question about the EFI update that i have been promted to install via the update function on my new MBP 2011.
But then when i read witch models that are affected, then my model is not amoung the affected models, so why do i need to install this update...?
Therefor my question is this...! Is there something "sinister" about the hardware, that i dont know about in my MBP 2011 edition, since this update is primarily for older MacBooks. So is it an "old" MacBook in disguise.....or just something everybody has to install...?

The EFI updates are designed to install Apple monitoring software so they can read your hard drive, your browser and record any ripped MP3 files or other copyrighted media you have.
This is the exact intention of why EFI was created by Intel at the behest of the media industry. The UEFI forum is run by the MIAA and RIAA lawyers, the same who now run the US Justice Department
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/obama-taps-fift/
http://www.uefi.org/about/
You have no access to EFI, it does exactly what it pleases, your OS X and programs you install have no control over it or even can tell what it's doing.
If EFI allows you to do something, it's because it is, it has the power to stop you as it sits between your OS and hardware.
Every wonder why you can't boot off certain OS X install disks? It's because of EFI.
Apple sent out a firmware update and disallowed any booting off 10.5 disks, try it!
Not only that, Apple has scrambled the airport wifi signals so you can't use sniffing software on another Mac to determine if EFI is making outbound connections.
Also Apple has turned off the Airports blinking light, or if you like the blinking, it blinks all the time without any regard to if there is a transmission going over it or not.
To add further insult, new wired keyboard from Apple require software installed, firmware in the keyboard can record your keystrokes.
The pieces to a fully secure, fully monitored, computing system is slowly being lowered into place.
In fact the iSight camera can be turned on remotely without the green light appearing for covert surveillance.
Apple has hired NSA expert David Rice to lead it's computer security team, you KNOW the NSA has backdoors
on the Internet
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70619
in Windows
http://slashdot.org/story/99/09/03/0940241/nsa-backdoor-creates-security-hole-in -windows
Do you really think the Mac has been ignored?
It just works better in EFI that's all.

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