http://news.techworld.com/security/3465259/is-windows-8-trojan-horse-for-nsa-german-government-thinks-so/
By John E Dunn
Techworld
22 August 2013
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 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.
Windows 8 security going forward will be founded on TPM 2.0 and the
ability to access or break it would be of huge value to any intelligence
service.
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