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FSF Urges Moving Off Microsoft's GitHub to Protest Windows 11's Requiring TPM 2.0 (news.slashdot.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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TPM is a dedicated chip or firmware enabling hardware-level security, housing encryption keys, certificates, passwords, and sensitive data, "and shielding them from unauthorized access," Microsoft senior product manager Steven Hosking wrote last month, declaring TPM 2.0 to be "a non-negotiable standard for the future of Windows."

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Normally, offloading cryptography to a different hardware module could be seen as a good thing — but with nonfree software, it can only spell trouble for the user...

Could someone explain more about this? What about TPM + proprietary OS is bad? What are the risks here?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

IPhones. Think of the freedom of owning an ihpone.

That's it

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