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reactordevtoday at 11:04 AM1 replyview on HN

that's the idea behind SecureBoot and the TPM chip is to provide the GDID based on hardware fingerprint. Some games already do this as "anti-cheat" measurements (tracking you) and Microsoft has been doing it since Windows 7 days. It's just that the TPM now gives you that hardware authority.


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grueztoday at 1:42 PM

>that's the idea behind SecureBoot and the TPM chip is to provide the GDID based on hardware fingerprint

hard drive and motherboard serials have been around far longer than TPMs. Not to mention TPMs are far cheaper to replace than hard drives.

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