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

[S.M. Muraya]

If we worry about 200 Million Windows 8.1 PCs (by 2015) how about 1 Billion
mobile devices running Android by 2015?

Blessings

Murigi / Stanley Muraya

*"Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one
who takes a city." Prov 16:32*


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Evans Ikua <ikua.evans at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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