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German Government Warns Windows 8 Is an Unacceptable Security Risk

Posted by timothy on from the nicht-ganz-recht dept.

An anonymous reader writes "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, but automatic translators (such as Google Translate) do a readable job. Particularly of concern is the inability to opt out of TPM 2.0 usage."

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  1. Re:And the follow-up article by bfandreas · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Where the BSI takes issue with their reporting. Of course, with the extent now clear of the US government's use of US IT companies to maintain American political and economic advantages, if you were running a non-US-based company or a non-US-governmental organization, you'd want to do as much critical business with non-American hardware, software and services as possible.

    I wouldn't take technological advice from Die Zeit. They still think steam engines will never replace the Spinning Jenny.
    Also ... the BSI ... bruahahaha.

    *snort*

    Whatever backdoor MS has planted for whoever asked them will propably have made its way into any older Windows version via their automatic update.

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    20 minutes into the future
  2. Re:Not just Win8 by wmac1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Are you ignorant yourself? We are talking about Windows 8 (a desktop and recently tablet OS). Linux desktop has less than %1 market share.

    If it was a better product , users would prefer it with its free price. I have used Linux for 15 years (on servers) but I cannot bear it on desktop.