When it was first invented, it was widely feared by Linux users and by Richard Stallman, especially after Secure Boot was rolled out.
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And by extension, potentially loading a kernel driver that can prove certain installed applications have not been tampered with.
Then it all fell apart – Palladium was canceled, a Senator retired, and TPM chips have been in our PCs for years but have generally been considered benign.įor those who do not know what remote attestation is: Richard Stallman railed about the freedom it would take in 2005, A Senator presented a bill asking for the required chips to become mandatory, and Microsoft prepared Palladium to improve “security” and bring remote attestation (among other things) to the masses. Remote attestation has been a technology around for decades now.