Should We Be Afraid of TPM Chips?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday March 31, 2006 @07:20AM from the trusted-by-whom dept.

AcidArrow asks: "I was looking to buy a new laptop and since I wanted to be on the bleeding edge, I thought one with the new core duo chips would be just what I need. Among the features on the laptops I was looking was 'Trusted Platform Module chip for the safety of your data'. Now, I don't know of any real uses for a TPM chip yet, but is this something that should worry me, or keep me from buying a laptop with said 'feature'? I don't intend to use it and I would like to disable it, if possible, but I don't want to make it easier for anyone to track down what I'm doing on my laptop."

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Re:Be afraid only if you can't use it .. by EvilNTUser · 2006-03-31 08:42 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"like being able to save .DOC files to your USB stick"

Could we at least on slashdot use Free file formats in examples instead of promoting the MS Word "standard"? Please.

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