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08-Feb-2010, 07:59 PM #1
TPM chips cracked
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/...VyaXR5Y2hpcA--

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Tarnovsky figured out a way to break chips that carry a "Trusted Platform Module," or TPM, designation by essentially spying on them like a phone conversation. Such chips are billed as the industry's most secure and are estimated to be in as many as 100 million personal computers and servers,
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08-Feb-2010, 09:54 PM #3
Additionally, it is a hardware crack that requires physical access, and an extremely high level of expertise to pull off.

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