Reason I’m asking is because there are some people claiming that the TPM is a backdoor or something. I wonder if people on Lemmy subscribe to that belief, or no?
Reason I’m asking is because there are some people claiming that the TPM is a backdoor or something. I wonder if people on Lemmy subscribe to that belief, or no?
“TPM is a backdoor” was something that got bandied around during the Vista era psrtially by people not understanding and partially (imo) to muddy the waters.
Secure Boot was maligned as at the time only MS were allowed to sign for it, so it was just an anti-linux locker. Later, after much haranguing, they backpedaled and allowed Canonical and Redhat to sign things, much much later, we could self sign.
TPM was also maligned around the same since MS (allegedly) had aspersions to only allow signed software which would be encrypted so that ‘bad actors’ (the users themselves) couldn’t change ‘protected’ (any) executables. I think the closest we’ve ever seen of that is Windows S.
To be fair, we see all these things (or similar) used in the mobile and console space used to do the shitty stuff we were afraid of.
It’s weird this didn’t get more pushback on mobile. Even the mainstream press was critical when Microsoft proposed it for PCs.
It was kind of the norm with phones. The shift from cellphone over feature phone to smartphone was gradual enough that outside of some enthusiasts nobody cared about running their own OS on one.
Nowadays I even wish I could run my own OS on my washing machine.
It had been the norm for phones, then Android came along and a much more PC-like level of capability became the norm for phones. SafetyNet didn’t show up until five years later and it didn’t get significant negative press.