Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates
Verqix@lemmy.world 1 week agoCorrect, the obsolete PCs can’t update to Windows 11. The Windows 11 update forces certain hardware support that a lot of devices don’t have. The security this hardware provides is mainly in someone physically removing data from your PC. As such it’s very business oriented but affects all versions of Windows 11.
barryamelton@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s not business oriented, it provides a unique ID attached to the machine.
Next step is to use that unique ID to identify you on the internet and digital life. Ending all privacy.
You think this is far fetched? Kernel-level anti-cheat for games already does this and bans the machine for playing that game ever again.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Couldn’t you theoretically swap out the tpm chip? Or spoof/emulate it? If not, how do VMs run Win11, do they just inherit the host tpm chip and that’s that? I feel like this was the same goal of having a mac address on each device, and it became irrelevant in short order.