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LEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA

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According to leaked internal documents from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) that Die Zeit obtained, IT experts figured out that Windows 8, the touch-screen enabled, super-duper, but sales-challenged Microsoft operating system is outright dangerous for data security. It allows Microsoft to control the computer remotely through a built-in backdoor. Keys to that backdoor are likely accessible to the NSA – and in an unintended ironic twist, perhaps even to the Chinese.

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Comments (10)

penguinist ·
Every door has two sides, an inside and an outside.

It appears that Microsoft has put themselves on the inside and have left their customers on the outside.
seatex ·
And people pay money for this?
nmset ·
Why would mother board manufacturers include this TPM chip on their boards ?
seatex ·
> Why would mother board manufacturers include this TPM chip on their boards ?

So they can put a Windows logo on the box.
caitlyn ·
Quoting:Why would mother board manufacturers include this TPM chip on their boards ?
In order for computers with their chips to be certified for Windows 8, of course.
Bob_Robertson ·
My purchase of white-box vanilla motherboards is reinforced.
nmset ·
Much has been said about Win 8 certificatiom and enabling secure boot; it's the first time there's news about this chip or I missed it. Hoax? Too big a non- sense, that can't escape international shouting.
BernardSwiss ·
> And people pay money for this?

We tried to tell them.

But that Richard M. Stallman fellow was just a delusional, unrealistic, ideological nutcase -- everybody (everybody that mattered) said so!
hkwint ·
This topic is so funny, because the left arm doesn't know what the right arm is doing.

In Der Spiegel, we can read how the NSA cooperates closely with the BND (BundersNachtichtenDienst).

BernardSwiss ·
It's only "cooperation" when you can really say "no".

Or if you at least think you can.

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