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floofloof@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG

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Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG

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    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.

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      How do you kill your TPM chip?

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        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

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          Level 5, throw computer into a volcano and go live in the woods using no technology more complex than a flint and steel.

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          Thank you, the best I can do is level 2 (once I learn how to solder)

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        Disable it in the bios

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      Just disabled it in BIOS/UEFI. Should I disable security device support too, or doesn’t it matter when fTPM is disabled?

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        Or depends what they mean by security service support. Presumably some kind of external (usb ?) device ?

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