I do DRM for a day job, including cracking systems to find their vulnerabilities (and then patch those vulnerabilities, before the pirtes exploit them - fun!).

I do DRM for a day job, including cracking systems to find their vulnerabilities (and then patch those vulnerabilities, before the pirtes exploit them - fun!). TPM is not the same as the other solutions, it really is a bitch to crack. You're pretty much reduced to reverse enginering the entire CPU, removing the TPM module, and then fabbing your own unprotected copy of the CPU. As you can probably imagine, this is not within the reach of a couple of bored uni students.