[kictanet] Is Windows 8 a Trojan horse for the NSA? The German Government thinks so

[Evans Ikua]

The German Government is now deeply suspicious that the Trusted Platform
Module (TPM) technology built into a growing number of Windows 8 PCs and
tablets is creating a gigantic back door for NSA surveillance, leaked
documents have suggested.

Documents from the German Ministry of Economic Affairs obtained by German
title *Zeit Online*<http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2013-08/trusted-computing-microsoft-windows-8-nsa/seite-1>uncover
the alleged unease of officials at the direction of version 2.0 of
the standard being developed under the auspices of the multi-vendor Trusted
Computing Group (TCG).

TPM has been marketed as a security and Digital Rights Management (DRM)
technology since its appearance in 2006, but version 2.0 would embed a chip
on every PC that has complete control over which programs can and can’t
run, a setting that can’t be over-ridden under Windows 8. The chip is also
where the cryptographic data is stored for Windows BitLocker and it enables
remote administration.

Please read more
here<http://news.techworld.com/security/3465259/is-windows-8-trojan-horse-for-nsa-german-government-thinks-so/#tk.nl_win>

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