No surprise there - TPM's are a proprietary "security" gimmick probably
invented for DRM.
One doesn't really need them if you use coreboot with an embedded kernel
or with grub and kernel code signing and of course write-lock the flash
chip.
Raptor Engineering/Raptor Computing System's FlexVER is
Two weeks ago, four South Korean researchers detailed two attacks on TPM chips
that can allow an attacker to tamper with the boot-up process.
The attacks are possible thanks to power interrupts.
Modern computers do not feed power to all their components allthe time and at
the same time. They
