wraggster
August 22nd, 2013, 22:25
Die Zeit has access to leaked documents from the German government warning that Windows 8 is an unacceptable security risk for sensitive workloads. The story is written in German here (http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2013-08/trusted-computing-microsoft-windows-8-nsa), but automatic translators (such as Google Translate) do a readable job (http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeit.de%2Fdigital%2Fdatenschutz %2F2013-08%2Ftrusted-computing-microsoft-windows-8-nsa). Particularly of concern is the inability to opt out of TPM 2.0 usage.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/08/22/1225236/german-government-warns-windows-8-is-an-unacceptable-security-risk
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/08/22/1225236/german-government-warns-windows-8-is-an-unacceptable-security-risk