Free Rootkit with Every New Intel Machine

[Matt Johnston]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 04:42:56PM +1200, David G. Koontz wrote:
>   Apple (mis)uses
> TPM to unsuccessfully prevent OS X from running on non-Apple Hardware.
> All Apple on Intel machines have TPM, that's what 6 percent of new PCs?

To nit pick, the TPM is only present in some Apple Intel
machines and isn't used in any of them. See
http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter10/tpm/

Their OS decryption key is just stored in normal firmware,
unprotected AIUI.

Matt

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