German Government Warns Windows 8 Is an Unacceptable Security Risk

[nicholas]

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.

Oh dear.

[nicholas]

I think a native German speaker might need to explain it better but as far as I could tell they deem the next version of TPM a risk because it can't be switched off  gives MS total remote access and control over the machine.

[nicholas]

What percentage of new machines will actually be sold with a TPM module, is what I'm wondering?  Although I hate Win8 just as much as the next guy and love to see it bashed in the press, this just sounds like more FUD unless they mandate it be built into every new machine sold.

Any machine that wants to use the "Designed for Windows" logo I think. Which is probably most of them.