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dmiller

02/09/10 3:30 PM

#283335 RE: vieraf #283323

According to another poster here, in the end it doesn't seem to matter very much.

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=46425512&txt2find=TPM

Hacking a TPM can be done with enough time, money and technology. What they failed to mention is that each TPM chip has a unique identification number and code so even if you hack a chip, you have only gained access to the contents of one chip. You would have to perform the same procedures on every chip that you want to hack and that is totally impractical. I believe the hacker said it took him six months to crack one chip using specialized equipment. There are also other layers of security you can impose on the chip to make it more difficult. I'll bet the software vendors paid for this study to slow down acceptance of hardware security applications over software versions. I'm betting hardware will easily win over software security applications and the government will be the biggest driver of the change.