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/

By John E Dunn
Techworld
22 August 2013

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 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 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.

Windows 8 security going forward will be founded on TPM 2.0 and the 
ability to access or break it would be of huge value to any intelligence 
service.

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