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It doesn´t add "cyber doors"!  SF can send out technical informations if you tell it to do so and there´s nothing wrong about this.
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It adds remote access to your computer so it can obtain information without allowing you to set the means or manner in which it sends the report. That is like your flatmate busting a hole in the wall into your room and saying, "If you need to tell me anything, talk through this hole." without you having any say in the matter.
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Quite a few things only show up in the Non-PNP driver list, like the SafeDisk copy protection, VMWare, Nero´s ElbyCDIO driver and many other drivers. It´s all perfectly normal!
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Yes other commercial software does sometimes put itself in that list but there is a large difference between them and SF.
The ones you mentioned, if purchased in material form rather then electronic. have documentation to tell you about those settings, in case the program has any problems so that you can troubleshoot.
StarFoce does not, they add this software and control devices against your will and before it became widely known, without your knowledge as well.
StarForce adds new software and configures existing software without prompting you or allowing you any choice in the matter except to not use the product you purchased that unfortunately came with it. It has caused countless issues with system stability including my own. It added itself to my Win 98 system when I installed SH3 and had a conflict with my Win 98 RAID Drivers forcing me to do a complete overhaul of my win 98 system and purchase XP. True, 98 is obsolete and I would have had to buy XP sometime but I had not expected it to be so soon.
As of yet however, StarForce does not effect my XP system's performance except that it disabled my alcohol 120% and refuses to recognize my LG CD\RW. When before reinstalling SH3 on my new system both worked fine. I had hopes that SF had more compatibility with XP then 98 so I chanced it and now regret it.