Following on from Dan's thread, I looked at buying a TPM for my current PC.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186266263863
This is £2.34, delivered.
I notice that CCL sell one for £15, and ebuyer are nearly £30. Is a £2
one actually likely to be genuine, or just something that fools the PC
into thinking a TPM is attached?
On 10 May 2024 at 16:03:14 BST, "GB" <NOTsomeone@microsoft.invalid>
wrote:
Following on from Dan's thread, I looked at buying a TPM for my current PC. >>
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186266263863
This is £2.34, delivered.
I notice that CCL sell one for £15, and ebuyer are nearly £30. Is a £2
one actually likely to be genuine, or just something that fools the PC
into thinking a TPM is attached?
Given you can get away with telling Windows 11 to pretend you have one,
is it even worth £2.34?
Cheers - Jaimie
On 10 May 2024 at 16:03:14 BST, "GB" <NOTsomeone@microsoft.invalid>
wrote:
Following on from Dan's thread, I looked at buying a TPM for my current PC. >>
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186266263863
This is £2.34, delivered.
I notice that CCL sell one for £15, and ebuyer are nearly £30. Is a £2
one actually likely to be genuine, or just something that fools the PC
into thinking a TPM is attached?
Given you can get away with telling Windows 11 to pretend you have one,
is it even worth £2.34?
Cheers - Jaimie
On 10/05/2024 21:05, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
On 10 May 2024 at 16:03:14 BST, "GB" <NOTsomeone@microsoft.invalid>
wrote:
Following on from Dan's thread, I looked at buying a TPM for my current PC.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186266263863
This is £2.34, delivered.
I notice that CCL sell one for £15, and ebuyer are nearly £30. Is a £2 >> one actually likely to be genuine, or just something that fools the PC
into thinking a TPM is attached?
Given you can get away with telling Windows 11 to pretend you have one,
is it even worth £2.34?
I'm not so much interested in trying to fool W11. If a TPM is needed for security, I'd like it to work properly. I'm not an expert on TPMs, and I don't really understand why one costs £2 and another £30.
I'm not so much interested in trying to fool W11. If a TPM is needed for security, I'd like it to work properly.
The main commercial reason that Microsoft and others are encouraging the
use of TPMs is that a TPM can be used to enforce Digital Rights
Management, which has nothing much to do with your security and a lot to
do with enabling big commercial companies to restrict the way in which you >can use their Copyrighted material.
On 11/05/2024 10:40, Jeff Gaines wrote:
MSFT have also managed to persuade Malwarebytes to treat Nirsoft'sYou're not wrong! Perhaps this is why I started using Linux (almost) >exclusively about 15 years ago?
Produkey as malware (as does defender). Our ability to use our own >>computers is constantly squeezed.
MSFT have also managed to persuade Malwarebytes to treat Nirsoft'sYou're not wrong! Perhaps this is why I started using Linux (almost) exclusively about 15 years ago?
Produkey as malware (as does defender). Our ability to use our own
computers is constantly squeezed.
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