How bad is TPM on a laptop for privacy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by wAkawAka@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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There are some speculations about TPM uncontrollably sending data to manufacturer servers if a laptop has any Internet connection. Others say it's not intended/capable of that, like this answer for example (which is 5 years old though).

Lemmy, what do you say?

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[-] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You confuse TPMs with Microsoft's proprietary pluton processor, which is now being forced into consumer grade CPUs from AMD and Intel.

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