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

[Drew]

English translation of article:
http://beforeitsnews.com/spies-and-intelligence/2013/08/german-government-warns-of-windows-8-backdoors-to-nsa-2445208.html

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>   Government warns of Windows 8
>>>
>>> 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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