• Re: TCPA Is Probably Going to Control Everything You Do On Your Compute

    From The Passenger@1:229/2 to Kevin Calder on Tuesday, June 29, 2021 06:36:53
    From: kbcalder@gmail.com

    On Saturday, 15 November 2003 at 22:54:38 UTC, Kevin Calder wrote:
    http://www.againsttcpa.com/tcpa-faq-en.html

    I had thought that TCPA had fizzled and that TPM was yet another legacy BIOS feature that was mostly ignored or which almost everyone forgot to switch on/off.

    I was then somewhat surprised to see MS listing TPM 2.0 as a mandatory for W11.

    I guess they are in it for the long haul.

    It will be interesting to see if MS make an exception to this rule for TCM devices in China. Place your bets!

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Ander GM@1:229/2 to The Passenger on Saturday, January 15, 2022 20:14:02
    From: ander@disroot.org

    On 2021-06-29, The Passenger <kbcalder@gmail.com> wrote:
    On Saturday, 15 November 2003 at 22:54:38 UTC, Kevin Calder wrote:
    http://www.againsttcpa.com/tcpa-faq-en.html

    I had thought that TCPA had fizzled and that TPM was yet another legacy BIOS feature that was mostly ignored or which almost everyone forgot to switch on/off.

    I was then somewhat surprised to see MS listing TPM 2.0 as a mandatory for W11.

    I guess they are in it for the long haul.

    It will be interesting to see if MS make an exception to this rule for TCM devices in China. Place your bets!
    There's always the Odroid devices, retromachines with light distros like slackware and text mode/fluxbox+rox (which I use on framebuffer mode
    even with SDL2 support, I use mpv, mednafen and IF games... good).
    As long as I have stuff like Bitlbee, the framebuffer and good SDL2
    support, I don't care on future surveillance, there's lots of
    "embedded"-ish to choose inbetween.
    Also, there's ao486 for some FPGA's. NetBSD should run ok-ish giving
    some good RAM chunk exits (~256MB).

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)