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Netflix doesn't make use of the TPM.
by mjg59 3y ago
Netflix doesn't make use of the TPM.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoYeah, but that goes to show you how limited in know-how people complaining about TPM are, and they keep spreading FUD like this and others keep buying it. And this is a supposedly tech focused platform where the tech literacy is at its highest. I wouldn't be surprised to read comments that TPM is used by Bill Gates to give you Covid.
- aseipp 3y agoMy rule of thumb is that I don't listen to anyone who can't write exploits for modern software stacks (OS kernels, browsers.) And even then, you can still ignore 50% of those people too, as they are cranks. In contrast, most of the people here in every one of these threads couldn't overflow an integer if you let them write the for loop. > I wouldn't be surprised to read comments that TPM is used by Bill Gates to give you Covid. One time on here, someone linked an academic paper describing an HTTP PCIe accelerator. One of the (eight) authors was from Tsinghua, and so naturally someone in the comments started freaking out about how this was a plan by the Chinese Deep State to fund this for mass surveillance. When I asked him how this would work and what threat he expected, he described an elaborate Tom Clancy plotline where these PCIe cards will actually be snooping every key exchange, keeping them in memory, and they would be secretly equipped and manufactured with short wave radio devices that would allow Chinese agents to "exfiltrate private keys" (whatever that means) by posing as janitors and technicians in the datacenter and beaming those radio messages to them. That was his threat model for "thing you literally plug into your fucking server and put on a shared memory bus." Now, how this is expected to work when most HTTP accelerators don't do key exchange (and never ever see long term keys), or how these keys would benefit them when presumably many encrypted comms do not go through cables controlled and spliced by the nefarious, evil-loving CCP -- well, that's left as an exercise for you!
- egberts1 3y agoFor just $30.00 (USD), you too could possess a PCIe bus snooper. No one would be the wiser. https://www.ebay.com/itm/186136320010?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28&srsltid=AfmBOorL-uFg5MMha4jtzLIVVVYYUhllytTFZOcN-YMBAb4FckCqVMVK1As https://www.ebay.com/itm/186136320010?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=2...
- zlg_codes 3y agoThe TPM is a black box that has no business in hardware. It simply takes control away from you. Make excuses for 'only when watching a video' or 'only when you play a game', the overwhelming trend in technology is that any practical means to lock things down WILL be explored by capital, to maintain social dominance. MS already has TPM and secure boot requirements. What's stopping them from colluding with the Copyright Cartel and embedding keys in the firmware that, if removed, disable functionality on the device or on property networks? You are giving FAR too much trust to entities proven to have an interest in limiting computing freedoms.
- Mindwipe 3y ago> MS already has TPM and secure boot requirements. What's stopping them from colluding with the Copyright Cartel and embedding keys in the firmware that, if removed, disable functionality on the device or on property networks? That Nvidia, Intel and AMD already put a better black box with a smaller attack surface in the GPU years ago for them to use.
- zlg_codes 3y agoInterested in reading about what you mean wrt GPU black boxes.
- immibis 3y agoIt will when every system has a TPM.