• kingthrillgore@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    TPM actually provides some useful components to isolate encryption outside of Ring 0, which is a trust win. But any technology must be weighted against its power to oppress.

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      1 year ago

      And its power to make the system less secure. Isolating things outside ring 0 means malware can isolate itself outside ring 0 as well, and then it’s impossible to detect or remove without throwing out the entire machine.

      Which is much, much scarier than anything an ordinary rootkit might do.