floofloof@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agoFed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNGwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkFed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNGwww.theregister.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareinterdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoI always just kill my TPM chip. It’s so obvious tpm will be used in the future for application offline DRM. They will executed encrypted operations under the TPM veil and decompilers will become unusable.
minus-squarextapa@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoJust disabled it in BIOS/UEFI. Should I disable security device support too, or doesn’t it matter when fTPM is disabled?
minus-squareMigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoHow do you kill your TPM chip?
minus-squareinterdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoLevel 1, turn off in bios Level 2, desolder from motherboard Level 3, remove cpu pins related to tpm Level 4, decap cpu, laser off tpm bus or blocks
I always just kill my TPM chip. It’s so obvious tpm will be used in the future for application offline DRM. They will executed encrypted operations under the TPM veil and decompilers will become unusable.
Just disabled it in BIOS/UEFI. Should I disable security device support too, or doesn’t it matter when fTPM is disabled?
How do you kill your TPM chip?
Level 1, turn off in bios
Level 2, desolder from motherboard
Level 3, remove cpu pins related to tpm
Level 4, decap cpu, laser off tpm bus or blocks