LEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA

[Grizzmeister]

Originally Posted by swagger

Ahh, the ol' Trusted Computing thing.

Yeah, you're a little late to the party on this. This (and the concern / paranoia about it) has been around for many years.

Yawn.

You mean the German government is late to the party and is being paranoid? Allow me to remind you again about the topic of the thread and the title of the article I linked.

"LEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA"

Here's an interesting perspective from PC World.

Is Windows 8 a Trojan horse for the NSA? The German Government thinks so | PCWorld

Is the story overblown Teutonic paranoia or a valid concern about the growing power of state surveillance? Until recently, the presumption might have been to the former but the Snowden affair changed the dimensions of the debate.

The NSA has if not the capability then certainly the ambition to eavesdrop on every communication event on the Internet, and the willingness of large US firm to go along with that, or not, has generated huge controversy. Meanwhile, allegations that Microsoft has co-operated with the NSA to bypass the encryption used in some of its services are a matter of public record.

[texdav]

I think few societies are as paranoid about government authority than Germany and for good reason after their recent past only ending in the 90's.

[Sheeeen]

Windows RT tablets aren't selling, windows phone not doing well, Windows 8 being facing too many issues. Bill Gates, we want you in action.

[Futurist110]

Is Linux still safe to use (for Germans and for us Americans as well)?

[Trucker7]

Originally Posted by Futurist110

Is Linux still safe to use (for Germans and for us Americans as well)?

It should be. Linux, being developed in the open, has many eyes on the source code. Anyone can download the source code and inspect it. It would be really hard for NSA to sneak backdoors into it.