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

[Evans Ikua]

Can you imagine the kind of power one government (put any country of your
choice here) would have if they managed to put a backdoor to every server
out there, either in other governments' servers or those of critical
installations or major corporations? Just forget about the technology for a
moment. That would be a powerful country. They would get to know what your
plans are before you think about executing them, and ofcourse plan counter
moves. They would steal your industry blue prints and beat you to the
product. They would always be one step ahead. Sound familiar?

The most important strategy is to know yourself and to know your enemy.
"Knowledge is power" has never been so relevant.


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Paul Roy Owino <roykoikai at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Smart one S.M. 😃
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
>  ------------------------------
> From: S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya at gmail.com>
> Sent: ‎26/‎08/‎2013 4:12 PM
> To: Paul Roy <roykoikai at gmail.com>
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Is Windows 8 a Trojan horse for the NSA? The
> German Government thinks so
>
> 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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