Smart one S.M. 😃 Sent from my Windows Phone ------------------------------ From: S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com> Sent: ‎26/‎08/‎2013 4:12 PM To: Paul Roy <roykoikai@gmail.com> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Is Windows 8 a Trojan horse for the NSA? The German Government thinks so If we worry about 200 Million Windows 8.1 PCs (by 2015) how about 1 Billion mobile devices running Android by 2015? Blessings Murigi / Stanley Muraya *"Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city." Prov 16:32* On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Evans Ikua <ikua.evans@gmail.com> wrote:
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-windows-8-nsa/seite-1>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 and Digital Rights Management (DRM) 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.
Please read more here<http://news.techworld.com/security/3465259/is-windows-8-trojan-horse-for-nsa-german-government-thinks-so/#tk.nl_win>
-- *---------------------------------------------------- Kind Regards, Evans Ikua,*
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