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

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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[-] safefel556@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago
[-] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Looks bad enough. But what's TPM role in this?

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] koper@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago
[-] fluckx@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Is this windows 11 and onward? Can you override it? Because it might also not be an unauthorized copy.

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