The security doorway

Story: LEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSATotal Replies: 9
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penguinist

Aug 22, 2013
3:28 PM EDT
Every door has two sides, an inside and an outside.

It appears that Microsoft has put themselves on the inside and have left their customers on the outside.
seatex

Aug 22, 2013
3:59 PM EDT
And people pay money for this?
nmset

Aug 22, 2013
4:13 PM EDT
Why would mother board manufacturers include this TPM chip on their boards ?
seatex

Aug 22, 2013
4:15 PM EDT
> Why would mother board manufacturers include this TPM chip on their boards ?

So they can put a Windows logo on the box.
caitlyn

Aug 22, 2013
4:17 PM EDT
Quoting:Why would mother board manufacturers include this TPM chip on their boards ?
In order for computers with their chips to be certified for Windows 8, of course.
Bob_Robertson

Aug 22, 2013
4:37 PM EDT
My purchase of white-box vanilla motherboards is reinforced.
nmset

Aug 22, 2013
5:17 PM EDT
Much has been said about Win 8 certificatiom and enabling secure boot; it's the first time there's news about this chip or I missed it. Hoax? Too big a non- sense, that can't escape international shouting.
BernardSwiss

Aug 22, 2013
8:04 PM EDT
> And people pay money for this?

We tried to tell them.

But that Richard M. Stallman fellow was just a delusional, unrealistic, ideological nutcase -- everybody (everybody that mattered) said so!
hkwint

Aug 23, 2013
6:10 PM EDT
This topic is so funny, because the left arm doesn't know what the right arm is doing.

In Der Spiegel, we can read how the NSA cooperates closely with the BND (BundersNachtichtenDienst).

BernardSwiss

Aug 23, 2013
6:16 PM EDT
It's only "cooperation" when you can really say "no".

Or if you at least think you can.

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