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[Discuss] Boston Linux Meeting Reminder, tomorrow, Wednesday, February 21, 2018 - Secure Keystores with TPM 2.0



We talked about that. I'll raise the issue later while the YouTube is
broadcasting.

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 1:34 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 2/21/2018 12:50 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > That was written by the speaker. Are you planning on attending tonight.
> > Would love to hear your insights.
>
> Afraid not. But here is a relevant fact: Apple have not shipped a
> computer with a TPM since 2006, and even for the few months they shipped
> TPMs there were no drivers for them so they were unusable. Given the
> fact that Apple is one of the top notebook vendors in the world, and has
> been for more than 10 years, that's a significant number of "all
> notebooks" which don't have TPMs.
>
> Perhaps the speaker meant "all IBM notebooks have come with a TPM". This
> may actually be true but I have no data to support or refute it.
>
> --
> Rich P.
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