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

[Drew]

Clearer English discussion:
http://investmentwatchblog.com/leaked-german-government-warns-key-entities-not-to-use-windows-8-links-the-nsa/

> 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? ???
>>>
>>> Gerry
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>