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I still don't understand what the thinking is with mandating a TPM is present. Windows works perfectly fine without it and it is trivial to bypass.
by cedws 3y ago
I still don't understand what the thinking is with mandating a TPM is present. Windows works perfectly fine without it and it is trivial to bypass.
- netsharc 3y agoProbably because other platforms are doing it? iOS, MacOS (afaik?), Android (on some phones you can install unofficial OS images but they'd lack the official seal of "secure", although hacks are available). It's still a disgusting act of "fuck the planet and its inhabitants" if Microsoft stops offering an OS for computers without TPM. Why not do it like Android, sure some apps that will mandate security (like banking or Netflix 4K) won't be able to run, but better than dragging us to +3°C even faster. Obviously there's a chicken and egg problem there... if MS's "insecure" platform remains viable, banks, Netflix, etc won't dare release "Secure Windows only" software and exclude a large userbase from their market, and so their apps will remain "insecure"...
- hulitu 3y ago> Probably because other platforms are doing it? And as once the great president George W. Bush said: It must be good doing it. /s