MacTels loaded with DRM chips
This post was published 3 years 7 months 14 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.According to the following article, current Intel Macs are being shipped with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Otherwise known as a DRM chip.
It is instead reasonably sure that the new Macs operating system searches the TPM chip. There are in facts parts of Mac OS X Intel that directly query the optional TPM chip. As mentioned before, its function, for now, seems to be to simply to avoid that Mac OS X could run on non-Apple computers, but nothing prevents the chip from being used in the future for other purposes. Given Apple’s high stakes in the online music business (read iTunes), it would not be unreasonable to expect, for example, Steve Jobs’ company to use the chip as a DRM management system (anti-copy), with all the consequences in terms of restrictions that would be imposed on individual users, and which would not be based upon constitutional law but by the whims of theRIAA and the MPAA.
Has anyone found any documentation on the existence of the TPM module on any system specs for current Intel Apple hardware?
I believe Steve Jobs himself said the chip was in there.
ouch!!
I believe the MacOS uses that chip, and one of the security measures to prevent OSX from being installed on nay ordinary PC.
i really hopes so.. i once read a long article about “trusted computing” and what Bill Gates thought about it.. it is insane..
i guess i should have stressed the fact that the power of the tpm module is yet unknown for the future of osx and apple hardware (as far as user control is concerned).
I wouldn’t worry about it to much, IBM has TPM chips and it basically makes it so if you put that motherboard in a different computer, it wouldn’t work unless you have the serial number added.