----- Forwarded message from Jeffrey Walton ----- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:05:28 -0400 From: Jeffrey Walton To: Cryptopolictics Mailing List Subject: [cryptopolitics] Is Windows 8 a Trojan horse for the NSA? The German Government thinks so Reply-To: noloader@gmail.com http://news.techworld.com/security/3465259/is-windows-8-trojan-horse-for-nsa... 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-w...) 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. ... _______________________________________________ cryptopolitics mailing list cryptopolitics@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptopolitics ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5