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How bad is TPM on a laptop for privacy?
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The TPM doesn't do anything by itself.
But if Windows is sending all of your data, including stored files and passwords for some third party like its TOS says it can, than that's Windows breaching your privacy. Or if the remote management hardware that comes with every computer is allowing some third party to access it with more capabilities than even you have, like they are normally designed, than that's your CPU's manufacturer breaching your privacy (but those are supposed to be turned off).
But again, the TPM by itself doesn't do anything.
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You are looking at the wrong place. The TPM is a very standard piece of hardware, that shouldn't even need firmware (it would completely cancel the entire point of it). It enables a whole lot of shit, but it isn't the thing that does the shit.
Now, you can go look at the always-on network enabled uncontrollable management unity that exists inside your computer's processor... Intel pinky swears they can't access them in any way and will only activate them if you pay extra¹; AMD AFAIK doesn't even try to say anything.
1 - Makes sense to you? Well, how do they activate it if they can't access it?
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