Correct. It's one thing that the general population doesn't know what a TPM is but I just can't fathom how do governments deal with the fact that their entire nation's computing is about to be run under lock and key controlled by an american company. You could make the argument that up until this point it was possible to coexist with window's BS because despite it's closed nature, it was extensively documented and had workarounds to all to all treachorous functionality. But it's about to get a LOT worse with 11.
>Correct. It's one thing that the general population doesn't know what a TPM is but I just can't fathom how do governments deal with the fact that their entire nation's computing is about to be run under lock and key controlled by an american company.
And the said company would oblige to help NSA getting access to some users data.
Both China and Russia demand users with sensitive information to use their own operating systems and they also build their own hardware because they don't trust the hardware.
In my experience most people at government orgs simply follow the recommendations of 'someone' else. Said someone is in the pocket of some vendor, and 'champions' their cause. The relatively few folk that actually understand the details, are usually not the type to be able to wine n dine their management (because no vendor supported expense budget). Or worse, are single handedly tasked with the responsibility, and no reward (outside of securing your 'country', which effort will be diluted in front of your eyes anyway).
Everyone just buys the ABC company's TPM to put it into their heads and out of their minds.
