The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM

Re:The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM by mjg59 on Thursday January 02, 2025 @06:00PM (#42579971)

You think there's no value in your laptop being able to attest its state to your phone in order to give you confidence it hasn't been tampered with? That's something that would be entirely under your control.

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Re:The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM by ethbr1 on Friday January 03, 2025 @01:37AM (#42583145)

There's value in that, but it's a lesser value than the risk of normalizing manufacturer locking of computing devices.

Because the immediate next step after locking devices down is profit extraction from users.

Do you think Apple would have been able to maintain their App Store margins absent device control?

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Re:The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM by mjg59 on Friday January 03, 2025 @02:17AM (#42583344)

So don't normalise manufacturer locking. We're not going to prevent the bad thing from happening by arguing against the hardware that enables the bad thing - we're going to need to argue against the bad thing.

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Re:The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM by ethbr1 on Friday January 03, 2025 @08:38AM (#42585536)

I would if I trusted them, but IMHO ever device manufacturer is looking at their slim hardware margins and wishing they were fat software margins.

There's simply too much incentive for abuse.

The only way I personally could see supporting them is if there were first a legislative requirement that trusted modules always be user-modifiable.

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