The National Security Agency’s snooping practices may be costing American companies a lot of money. German publication Zeit Online has obtained leaked documents that purportedly show that IT experts within the German government believe that Windows 8 contains back doors that the NSA could use to remotely control any computers that have it installed.

The German officials specifically worry about how Windows 8 interacts with Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) and are concerned that once Windows machines are paired with TPM 2.0 in 2015, they won’t be able to deactivate it on their machines if they don’t want it. Once TPM 2.0 is in place, Zeit says that German researchers fear that there will be “simply no way to tell what exactly Microsoft does to their system through remote updates.” Because of this “loss of control over [the capabilities of] information technology,” the researchers conclude that ”the security-oriented principles of ‘confidentiality’ and ‘integrity’ are no longer achievable” in machines that have TPM 2.0 installed.

Interestingly, the researchers say that they’ll still be able to use Windows 7 securely “until
2020,” so it seems the German government may be using the legacy version of Microsoft’s platform for years to come if it takes up its IT experts’ recommendations.

http://bgr.com/2013/08/21/microsoft-windows-8-nsa-back-door/

gotten from :http://www.wikileaksparty.org.au/german-it-officials-reportedly-deem-windows-8-too-dangerous-to-use-by-brad-reed/

This is unbelievable..... truly... first spying, now controlling computers?.............. Lets just hope this doesnt get to the iRobot level.... thank God am still using my windows 98 sha........

hmmm.........joy when you turn spy?

Very possible considering latest advancements in computing but i doubt microsoft would want to kill its market by allowing the US government to install a back door on windows 8.

The pc market is suffering dwindling sales and if this is true it might be a big blow to pc maufacturers.

I am not a fan of windows 8 though. I dont know why my system should look like my smartphone.

Ok..

This is a wake up call to a heavy-less giant of Africa called Nigeria.We seem not to take our cybersecurity with seriousness it required.Very soon,Amazon will be making delivery in about 30mins with drones,here,we are taking about Oga jona 4 2015.To cut my lamentations short because nothing good will come out of it,i specially love China,Iran,Russia that are trying to do away with all these which means they encourage,innovate and invent their own.There's no way NSA can bypass their security be it availability,confidentiality or integrity except if they want to compromised(hack) into their systems which i doubt they would succeed!