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

[S.M. Muraya]

No comments about the closed ios/ipad ecosystem being used in serikali?

Please google "android malware".... It is about apps, not the so much the
operating system.

http://www.zdnet.com/android-app-malware-rates-jump-40-percent-7000019093/

Android smartphones with our gps coordinates are on us most of the time.

Not to forget, very insecure apps/services powered by Linux Servers 24
hours ....

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/critical-linux-vulnerability-imperils-users-even-after-silent-fix/

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/08/simple-hack-threatens-oudated-joomla-sites/



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 6:53 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> @Muraya,
>
> I used to think Android is "open"?  Meaning the comparison to Windows
> would not be appropriate in that if someone sneaked in spy-software in
> Android, I (and many others) can sniff it out, but if someone sneaked in
> some spy software in Windows, only Microsoft and perhaps the US govt would
> know?
>
> Incidentally what @Ikua raises in not far-fetched.  In 2010, it is widely
> believed the US /Israeli Governments unleashed a worm called "stuxnet" that
> chewed up the Iranian nuclear plants to a halt. The mode of delivery is
> also widely believed as being through one of the many regular Windows
> updates that we so faithfully do every week or month over the net.
>
> In other words, most Listers here and across the globe do have the
> "stuxnet" worm on their machines but it is in sleep mode simply because
> their organisations do not run nuclear reactors with specific circuitry.
> This worm was clever enough to only wake up upon sensing certain
> "signature" frequencies originating from certain circuitry that was
> dominant in Iranian nuclear reactors.
>
> Obviously only Microsoft could be able to see the additional logic/payload
> in that particular update.  Contrast this to updates whose code is "open"...
>
> For those technically inclined, you can pick up the story @
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
>
> walu.
>
>
>
>
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya at gmail.com>
> *To:* jwalu at yahoo.com
> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> *Sent:* Monday, August 26, 2013 4:12 PM
>
> *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>
>
> --
> *----------------------------------------------------
> Kind Regards,
> Evans Ikua,*
>
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