Posted on 08/22/2013 8:19:40 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
For your Tech list.
I think most people are just too dumb to know these days, they all know what an X-Box is I bet.
The TPM hash is not stored anywhere or pre-programmed. It exists solely in the chipset of the TPM. It’s not “trade-able.” It’s completely unreadable, even by the owner.
God has an all seeing eye.
They dealt with that in the middle ages.
We get a lower harmonic of that fact of life with our government and a few centuries of added time.
(We see a young man playing chess with another young man. They are in an ordinary flat. There is a tremendous battering, banging, hammering and clattering at the door.)
Young Man (Eric Idle): Door’s open.
Policeman (Graham Chapman): Oh. Yes. (he enters) All right. All right, all right, all right. My name’s Police Constable Henry Thatcher, and this is a raid. I have reason to believe that there are certain substances on the premises.
Young Man: Well what sort of substances officer?
Policeman: Er... certain substances.
Young Man: Well, what sort of certain substances?
Policeman: Er, certain substances of an illicit nature.
Young Man: Er, could you be more specific?
Policeman: I beg your pardon?
Young Man: Could you be ‘clearer’.
Policeman: Oh, oh... yes, er... certain substances on the premises to be removed for clinical tests.
Young Man: Have you got anything particular in mind?
Policeman: Well what have you got?
Young Man: Nothing, officer.
Policeman: You are Sandy Camp the actor?
Young Man: Yes.
Policeman: I must warn you, sir, that outside I have police dog Josephine, who is not only armed, and trained to sniff out certain substances, but is also a junkie.
Young Man: What are you after?
Policeman: (pulling a brown paper package from out of his pocket, very badly and obviously) Oo! Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! Here is a brown paper bag I have found on the premises. I must confiscate this sir, and take it with me for clinical examination.
Young Man: Wait a minute. You just got that out of your pocket.
Policeman: What?
Young Man: (takes it) Well what’s in it anyway? (opens it) Sandwiches?
Policeman: Sandwiches? Blimey. Whatever did I give the wife?
PRISM friendly? Sounds like Microsoft tried to hide the “all your base are belong to us” cheat in the code and got busted...
If Dell/HP/IBM/Lenovo are deliberately hashing their TPMs prior to distribution, then they’re not true TPMs. I have a v2.2 TPM from Infineon. The hash was created when the TPM was first plugged in and is based on the unique nature of the hardware in my machine. That’s how a TPM hash is generated.
I can relate. In a previous life the internal support group was planning a rollout of a major XP update to around 200,000 machines. Some home-grown stuff had very stringent dependancies and they were briefing the CIO on the multi-month test plan. His observation was something like "I don't see why you can't just roll it all out tonight, after all, it's still Windows".
Thankfully, he wasn't CIO very long.
Yeah, but in the middle ages the peasants could escape into the forests and “disappear.” We can’t even do that.
Your little skit made me lose my really important and witty train of thought. Now the world will never benefit from my brilliance, all because you made me laugh.
oh right.
I certainly hope more people switch to Linux because so far most of the free games are crap. When more people use Linux it will be an incentive for the big companies to make more Linux games.
>>I have been a software engineer for over 20 years
>>Microsoft 8 is the first product that made me want to get violent.
That’s the problem however, you’ve been at it for 20+ years (and so have I), so you are used to things working a certain way and given our age, its harder to adapt to change. I find Windows 8 disorienting as well - on the otherhand my kids use it and love it, people with just a few years of other experience don’t seem to mind it either (at least the ones I know), so its not that its bad imo, its just different....but MS isn’t creating new software for us dinosaurs, they are designed BY AND FOR the next generation of users - they don’t find it nearly as hard to use it.
You could also install PlayDeb!
“That hash is 1024-bit (or longer) and is impossible to crack in any realistic or near-term time frame.”
Done. People that say such nonsense as that have no clue what the NSA has or can do and simply repeat what other ignorant schmucks say on the Internet. The NSA has prime numbers well past a billion digits and can read your 1024 encrypted message faster than you can. They have a chip plant that is amazing and they do not use brute force computers to crack codes or messages. It is all math and wired in silicone, operating in frequencies that boggle the mind.
it is great on a laptop or tablet for surfing and blogging and twittering...
but not at all useful in the workplace
This has INFURIATED me at the office. I've been pleading the case with my leadership to allow us engineers to deploy Windows server Core edition which is just a Powershell console. They're fighting me tooth and nail saying, "Oh well if you ever leave, no one will know how to administer that system."
I wonder, sometimes, if leadership even gives a damn about server security. I'm personally trying to move more toward *Nix administration. They make better money, are growing in demand, and no one ever argues with you over whether or not to install the GUI.
Ping to read later - thanks for posting, aMPU!
If the TPM were completely inaccessible, it couldn't be accessed by the encryption tools on any level.
Actually I’m only half kidding about that. A few weeks ago there was a story about conservative groups being sabotaged with an email that would copy kid porn pictures onto their computer when the email was opened.
There was a big long set of steps you should take if that happened to you. Including taking your computer to the police and explaining what happened.
If you get caught with a picture like that on your computer you may as well take cyanide because your life for all practical purposes is over.
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