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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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