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Comment by ohazi

Does anyone make a "glass house" TPM? As in, a device that you can plug in to your motherboard's TPM port that implements the complete TPM 2.0 protocol, that looks/acts/feels like a real TPM, but then deliberately includes a side-channel like a USB port or something that gives a user full access to the TPM internals (keys, registers, etc.).

Obviously you'd never use something like this for trusted boot, but with Windows 11 requiring a TPM, and applications moving in the direction of "we refuse to run unless the environment is pristine" (e.g. video games with anti-cheat features, banking apps), it seems that something like this might eventually be useful for getting around DRM and restoring our ability to run whatever we want on machines that we own.

parent ohazi 5 years ago

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