<story><title>German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA</title><url>http://investmentwatchblog.com/leaked-german-government-warns-key-entities-not-to-use-windows-8-links-the-nsa/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rainsford</author><text>This is among the sillier NSA stories I&amp;#x27;ve read.  First of all, the &amp;quot;link to NSA&amp;quot; was basically invented out of thin air.  The original article in Die Zeit as well as this one are basically just reporting that TPM COULD be a &amp;quot;backdoor&amp;quot; for the NSA but not actually supporting the idea that it IS.&lt;p&gt;And beyond the issue of baseless speculation as a replacement for journalism, it&amp;#x27;s a little hard to understand why NSA (or anyone else) controlling TPM is a special threat to users.  Despite what the article claims, I don&amp;#x27;t think TPM is a &amp;quot;backdoor&amp;quot; and it certainly isn&amp;#x27;t a &amp;quot;surveillance chip&amp;quot;.  And the articles don&amp;#x27;t explain how control over TPM gives someone a special advantage over computers with TPM support, an explanation I&amp;#x27;m not holding my breath for.</text></comment>
<story><title>German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA</title><url>http://investmentwatchblog.com/leaked-german-government-warns-key-entities-not-to-use-windows-8-links-the-nsa/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guardian5x</author><text>The story is false, and the BSI (Federal Office for Information Security) has declined the rumours and explicitly does NOT warn of Windows 8:
&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Presse2013/Windows_TPM_Pl_21082013.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bsi.bund.de&amp;#x2F;DE&amp;#x2F;Presse&amp;#x2F;Pressemitteilungen&amp;#x2F;Presse2...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;it was just a story made up by a german site (zeit.de)</text></comment>