And now you're straight up lying. The whole purpose of the TPM is to hide cryptographic keys from anyone with physical access, including the owner. There is no

And now you're straight up lying. The whole purpose of the TPM is to hide cryptographic keys from anyone with physical access, including the owner. There is no override an owner can perform (via, say, a password set on first boot, that may be used to dump all the keys from the TPM into RAM). It may not by itself force you to encrypt your disk, but it does enable all the abuses listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing#Criticism, that I won't waste summarizing, as it's becoming increasingly obvious you're arguing in bad faith.