Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

[David <davidpalmer@westnet.com.au>]

Jimmy Wu wrote:
<snip>
> I just got the ThinkPad T61 laptop today.  I went in to system
> properties to take a look at the hardware device manager and I noticed
> it included "Trusted Platform Module 1.2".  Now, this raised a red
> flag for me, as my first impressions of "trusted computing" were
> framed by this article:
> http://badvista.fsf.org/what-s-wrong-with-microsoft-windows-vista
>
> So, I have two questions:
> (1) Is this really as scary as the article makes it out to be? (in
> other words, should I be worried that this is on my computer?)
> (2) Does Debian support TPM chips? What is the community's take on the issue?
> My take is that TPM does have some security merits, but it also has a
> lot of potential for abuse.
> Google turned up these results of the beginnings of TPM support in Linux:
> http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/linux/15574/ibm-brings-trusted-computing-linux
> http://lwn.net/Articles/144681/

Never on my machine.
So we need ID chips/cards on the 'net, now, do we?

On disc encription is the direction I'll be heading in.
Regards,

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David Palmer
Linux User - #352034