floofloof@lemmy.ca to LinuxEnglish · edit-211 months agoFed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNGwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square152fedilinkarrow-up1653arrow-down18
arrow-up1645arrow-down1external-linkFed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNGwww.theregister.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to LinuxEnglish · edit-211 months agomessage-square152fedilink
minus-squareinterdimensionalmemelinkfedilinkarrow-up94arrow-down7·11 months 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-squareMigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoHow do you kill your TPM chip?
minus-squareinterdimensionalmemelinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down2·edit-211 months 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
minus-squaregnutrino@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoLevel 5, throw computer into a volcano and go live in the woods using no technology more complex than a flint and steel.
minus-squareMigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoThank you, the best I can do is level 2 (once I learn how to solder)
minus-squarextapa@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoJust disabled it in BIOS/UEFI. Should I disable security device support too, or doesn’t it matter when fTPM is disabled?
minus-squareinterdimensionalmemelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoOr depends what they mean by security service support. Presumably some kind of external (usb ?) device ?
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.
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
Level 5, throw computer into a volcano and go live in the woods using no technology more complex than a flint and steel.
Thank you, the best I can do is level 2 (once I learn how to solder)
Disable it in the bios
Just disabled it in BIOS/UEFI. Should I disable security device support too, or doesn’t it matter when fTPM is disabled?
Or depends what they mean by security service support. Presumably some kind of external (usb ?) device ?