If you mean 1minute then sure yeah I am that impatient that I hate the idea of spending 1 minute looking at a logo. I've got places to be damnit!

No the problem is that *you* don't know how to access the information. Windows provides 3 distinct ways to clear all TPM data. Your UEFI provides ways to clear TPM data. It is under *YOUR* control. The idea of each app only having access to its own information is foundational to hardware security. The fact that a root user can't access information al-a-carte is foundational to the feature, and not DRM. You still have the ability to clear it.

Do you write your password on a post-it note and stick it under the desk? Because that sounds like the type of approach you take to understanding security.

It's been possible to identify CPU uniquely for decades, even before TPU existed. Also they don't just identify the CPU. The TPU side of things is irrelevant here.

Yes. Sorry was there a question there? Or do you think the requirement to use a password for Slashdot when you sign up is some secret Slashdot corporate agenda that is being forced on you for some reasons? TPM and Secure Boot are forced on users just like every security measure in the history of the PC was, mainly because users are fucking dumb if left to secure their own systems. Hell I still remember the good ol' days of being able to turn computers on and ending up on a Windows desktop, even though Microsoft gave users a *choice* of whether to put a password on their windows account. Users are too dumb to be presented with choices.

That I agree with, but again, it has zero to do with TPM or Secure Boot, neither of which are required for blacklisting. That said precisely zero people here are talking about something offline. Valorant cannot be played offline, it's an online-only game. And unfortunately dumb fucking users shat the bed there too. Online only games without anti-cheat are a cesspool. I don't like the idea of a game being able to ban me based on my hardware, but I do like the idea of it being applied to others. Unfortunately that position is unreconcilable.

Why are you trusting anything? It sounds like you don't know what TPM / Secure boot is or how it works. You are in full control over both. You get to decide what is in the TPM (and there are many ways to clear the TPM, Windows provides 3, your UEFI provides some too). TPM is nothing more than a place to store stuff. In the absence of TPM that stuff is still stored on your computer, just typically not in a secure place, i.e. as a file somewhere on your drive.

Secure boot? That's entirely in your control as well. UEFI gives you control over which keys are allowed to boot, you can delete Microsoft's default key, you can generate new keys for your Windows installation, just as you can for your Linux boot process. The fact you don't is your own fault and akin to leaving your house key under the door mat because that's where the previous owner kept it.

The lost case is the complete misinformation that is preventing people from using these things they themselves control properly. To play with your words: It is your choice but you're not being responsible with it at the moment.

TPM 2.0 can *in theory* be brute forced in 45 minutes. For that you need access to the hardware directly without any intermediate software doing something as simple as rate limiting queries. I'm happy for you that you recognise that they broke this 10+ years ago, but quite disappointed that you don't realise this security gap was effectively closed shortly after for anything that doesn't involve taking your computer to a specialised lab to attack your credentials.
*Hint: It's not sophisticated nation states most people are protecting against.

Absolutely false. It is in full control by YOU. YOU get to decide what keys are loaded in BIOS. YOU get to decide which keys are permitted to boot. YOU get to even generate custom keys for your Windows instance. The fact that YOU left secure boot settings at default with the MS provided key preloaded in your BIOS is YOUR failing.

The only person who gave Microsoft any control is you. I'm guessing your WiFi password is your router's MAC address as well? You probably also keep your house key under the door mat right? Because that sounds like the kind of security you seem to apply. Either that or you don't have a clue how TPM works. Take your pick.

At least you're half way there. When you figure out how they work, they'll be security measurements in practice too.

The flagging goes beyond CPU, it also flags the motherboard. Microsoft has been doing this to tie windows activation to components for decades now. A like for like CPU change would trigger a windows reactivation, and that was before you even learned to spell TPU.

Well shit it's almost like Microsoft themselves are now trolling rsilvergun with a perfectly timed Windows update: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.windowslatest.com%2F...

WTF? How is us (especially me) being a Musk hater related to climate change? I still drive a non-nazi EV just fine. One that I bought with capitalistic money. That same capitalism massively reduced the energy consumption of my house, that same capitalism is the driving force for solar and decarbonisation.

I am sorry I thought you were a climate denier. I now realise you have severe mental health issues and it was not my intention to pick on someone challenged such as you. I apologise.

for space... then we have zero problem using them here on earth. Space is cold but is also a vacuum so you lose all of your ability to convectively cool and are reliant on radiative cooling alone.

Of course it's constructive. It's a declaration that it is feature comparable with Teams.

Are you seriously posting this on a story about fingerprinting of individual pieces of hardware? It's clear TPM isn't required for DRM. It's a device used for storage of secure keys, something that is entirely within your control. E.g. Microsoft has been tying Windows activation to hardware from back in the days before people even knew how to spell TPM.

Hell you're worried about someone "hiding information" in the TPM? Clear it. Windows gives you not one, not two, but three mechanisms to do so, either through the settings in security, or through the management console tpm.msc, or just opening PowerShell and running the command Clear-TPM and rebooting.

Why are you so afraid of something under your control?

The requirement is for secure boot and TPM to be enabled. You seem very proud of not enabling security settings on your device that in general help you regardless of using Valorant or not.

The hilarious part here is that the general Slashdot "wisdom" is that TPM can be used to flag and black list your device for whatever reason, ... as if that was ever required for software to do that.

It just once again goes to show that people will put a lot of effort into working against their own self interest.

Census by the founders includes *every person* not just citizens. Disagree with the founding fathers on that one eh? Also there is an easy thing to do with people who are illegal, just make them legal. Reagan knew there isnt a practical alternative and now a new generation will have to learn that.

Nope....I liked Reagan a LOT, but he fucked up really badly on that one thing allowing an amnesty....caused a rush on the border...Hey everyone isn't perfect and he fucked that one.

Fuck legalizing them....send them all back and try to come in the legal way. I'm not against streamlining and reforming our immigration system to legally come here, but even with that we should be choosy about who we let in, only those that will benefit the US and show they will be likely to meld into the melting pot and become US citizens.

We need to set up system around work that will pretty much lock out ANY person here that is not here legally....I hate the thought of a national ID, but if something similar to it had to be in place to root out all the illegals, make it impossible to work and live here, I'd be for it.

And maybe we need to amend the constitution and ONLY count citizens and ONLY allow most things for citizens....let's make it as unattractive and difficult as possible for illegal immigrants.

If you ignore the world around you then you get to think everything is a hoax.
- Polarbears in the arctic region have had their extinction status updated and numbers are down.
- Penguins weren't endangered due to global warming, they aren't dependent on sea ice - too much faux news for you.
- Arctic summer sea ice is still lower than when satellite records began and continues to trend down.
- There's still some snow in the alps, and yet we have a large number of ski resorts going bust due to lack of snow, and there's now only a single year-round ski location left in the alps, again due to lack of snow.
- Mt Kilimanjaro has lost 80% of its glacier and snow cover over the past 100 years.
- No one said Florida would drown, they said it would flood more. Which it is, to a significant extent thanks to the average 8" sea level rise recorded there over the past 70 years.
- Even the dumbarse greens recognise the solution to the problem is not to invest in something that wouldn't even begin to have an effect for 30 years, and right up until that point contribute greatly to global warming. Building nukes is slow and intensely carbon emitting. The topic of nukes was one for the 90s, we should have been building them then, now they are a non solution pushed by people without a functioning brain.

- The reasonable conclusion is that the Greens are more intelligent than you. ... And I think that's probably the worst insult I've ever used on Slashdot *pats self on back*.