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bananaquant • today at 3:43 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The other article on their blog introduces a systemd module that not only collects all hardware information, but also signs it with TPM before transmission [0].

I'm not even sure it makes much sense in datacenter conditions. And once it gets onto computers of the regular users, it would be very easy to repurpose it for spyware.

[0]: https://amutable.com/blog/it-starts-upstream-systemd-report


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db48x • today at 5:47 PM

It’s no different than a Prometheus stat exporter. If you don’t want it then don’t enable it.

Also, most consumer computers don’t have a TPM.

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