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TPM is a dedicated chip or firmware enabling hardware-level security, housing encryption keys, certificates, passwords, and sensitive data, "and shielding them from unauthorized access," Microsoft senior product manager Steven Hosking wrote last month, declaring TPM 2.0 to be "a non-negotiable standard for the future of Windows."

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[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

Normally, offloading cryptography to a different hardware module could be seen as a good thing — but with nonfree software, it can only spell trouble for the user...

Could someone explain more about this? What about TPM + proprietary OS is bad? What are the risks here?

[-] h4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

This talk doesn't directly answer your question, but it will help you build a foundation for intelligently understanding the risks from a high level.

https://youtu.be/36myc8wQhLo

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