[GPSCC-chat] Windows 8 has NSA backdoors, Germans Report Says

[Drew]

The whole marvelous thing about GNU/Linux and other FLOSS (Free/Libre Open
Source Software) is that its development is entirely transparent.  That's
what makes it "free".  Free as in freedom.  Free from government and
corporate proprietary "features" (better described defects from the
freedom-loving, human rights-loving perspective) such as these backdoors.

No proprietary OS (including Apple Mac OS X, proprietary Unix, every
version of M$ Windows) can be trusted.  Only FLOSS can be trusted.  If
anyone wants help with running some form of GNU/Linux, either I or one of
my comrades in the FLOSS community can help you.  Just ask.

Green is FLOSS!

Drew

> What about other OSs?  Apple?  Unix?  Linux? ???
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> Gerry
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> Brian Good wrote:
>> The mainstream German weekly newspaper, Die Zeit, has obtained German
>> government
>> documents reporting on insecure features of Windows 8.
>>
>> http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2013-08/trusted-computing-microsoft-windows-8-nsa
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>>   Government warns of Windows 8
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>> Windows 8 is an unacceptable security risk for authorities and
>> companies, warn experts of the Government. The so-called trusted
>> computing was a backdoor for NSA.

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