Privacy @lemmy.ml wAkawAka @lemmy.world 8mo ago

How bad is TPM on a laptop for privacy?

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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- Looks bad enough. But what's TPM role in this?
  
  Microsoft Pluton is a kind of TPM with additional features:
  
  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-security/pluton/microsoft-pluton-security-processor
  
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2020/11/17/meet-the-microsoft-pluton-processor-the-security-chip-designed-for-the-future-of-windows-pcs/
  
  Funnily enough, they don't advertise preventing users from opening unapproved media files as a feature. So that could either mean they're sneaking it in, or that the image is not genuine.
- This is fake
- Is this windows 11 and onward? Can you override it? Because it might also not be an unauthorized copy.

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