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[cryptopolitics] Is Windows 8 a Trojan horse for the NSA? The German Government thinks so
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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:05:28 -0400
From: Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]>
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Subject: [cryptopolitics] Is Windows 8 a Trojan horse for the NSA? The German Government thinks so
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http://news.techworld.com/security/3465259/is-windows-8-trojan-horse-for-nsa-german-government-thinks-so/
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 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 canâ??t run, a setting that canâ??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.
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