Linus Torvalds suggests disabling AMD's 'stupid' fTPM to solve a persistent stuttering issue | The problem affects Ryzen-based PCs running both Windows and Linux
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Linus Torvalds suggests disabling AMD's 'stupid' fTPM to solve a persistent stuttering issue | The problem affects Ryzen-based PCs running both Windows and Linux::undefined
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The treacherous platform module has always been malware
Trusted computing has always given me the heebee jeebees. Why should users have to put trust in the vendor? Why should the vendor be able to potentially enforce DRM on my machine, where I want nothing even remotely resembling DRM in my machine's hardware or firmware? If I want to use software with DRM (Steam for example), I will specifically install it. If I want to use Secure Boot to verify the boot signatures of my machine, it damn well better be keys that are exclusively mine.
I prefer the idea of trustless computing, where everything is open source and all of the security implementations are verifiably secure and publicly auditable.
Treacherous computing is evil to the core. It's a plot to destroy the very idea of general purpose computers.
It's not just for that. It's useful also for allowing storing your data safely. For example to keep fingerprints safe or other similar information.
If it was for that, it'd be locked with my keys, not some megacorp's. The concept of treacherous computing is to let the corpos trust your computer to betray you for their profits.