• Solar Bear
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    1 year ago

    Why does everybody seem to think that userspace attestation is the only use for the TPM? The primary use is for data to be encrypted at rest but decrypted at boot as long as certain flags aren’t tripped. TPM is great for the security of your data if you know how to set it up.

    Valve is never going to require TPM attestation to use Steam, that’s just silly. Anti-cheat companies might, but my suggestion there is to just not play games that bundle malware.

    • @fred@lemmy.ml
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      71 year ago

      Whatever is touted as the primary use doesn’t matter as much as what anti-user features it enables.

      • Solar Bear
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        71 year ago

        Anti-user features which are enabled by games and programs that were already anti-user before this. Hardly worth getting upset about, nothing has really changed. You already should have been avoiding them, because they were already anti-user.