Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates
barryamelton@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoIt’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 5 weeks 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.