German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8

Re:German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8... by mtgx on Thursday August 22, 2013 @06:16AM (#6256233)

The story seems to be from leaked internal documents. Haven't we learned better over the past 2 months than trusting the "official statements" afterwards, that inevitably deny it whether it's true or not?

At the very least, I think this deserves more exploring. It's not the first time I saw the Germans weren't happy with Windows 8 and its "secure boot". This is from last November:

http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/11/21/german-govt-comes-out-a...

And it seems the source for that is your source. So are they contradicting themselves now?

http://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Themen/OED_Ve...

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Re:German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8... by arnehormann on Thursday August 22, 2013 @08:38AM (#6256705)

Those are different sources. BMI = "Bundesministerium des Inneren", interior ministry. BSI = "Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik", federal office of IT security. And they are not contradicting themselves. The statement they just issued reiterated Windows 8 is not safe for government and critical infrastructures.

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