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There are some speculations about TPM uncontrollably sending data to manufacturer servers if a laptop has any Internet connection. Others say it's not intended/capable of that, like this answer for example (which is 5 years old though).

Lemmy, what do you say?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You are looking at the wrong place. The TPM is a very standard piece of hardware, that shouldn't even need firmware (it would completely cancel the entire point of it). It enables a whole lot of shit, but it isn't the thing that does the shit.

Now, you can go look at the always-on network enabled uncontrollable management unity that exists inside your computer's processor... Intel pinky swears they can't access them in any way and will only activate them if you pay extra¹; AMD AFAIK doesn't even try to say anything.

1 - Makes sense to you? Well, how do they activate it if they can't access it?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)