Note that the Trusted Computing Group has seen the controversy over Snowden's leaks as useful tool for spreading propaganda about the TPM and their goal of establishing a root of trust.
They acknowledge that almost nobody actually wants a TPM ("There has been no market driver to incorporate TPMs"), and observe that post-Snowden there are more people looking to improve their internet security.
Therefor, the plan is to repudiate the NSA, ("The manufacturers of TPMs must demonstrate that there are no back doors in their products." - at least not an NSA back-door...) and push their usual word-games about the TPM such as "secure end-to-end communication [...] made possible [...] with TPMS.
So it may be prudent to question the motives behind any of these new attempts at justify the TPM.
They acknowledge that almost nobody actually wants a TPM ("There has been no market driver to incorporate TPMs"), and observe that post-Snowden there are more people looking to improve their internet security.
Therefor, the plan is to repudiate the NSA, ("The manufacturers of TPMs must demonstrate that there are no back doors in their products." - at least not an NSA back-door...) and push their usual word-games about the TPM such as "secure end-to-end communication [...] made possible [...] with TPMS.
So it may be prudent to question the motives behind any of these new attempts at justify the TPM.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardstiennon/2013/11/16/trust...
Edit: It seems the author of this post appears to work at Google, a contributor to the Trusted Computing Group.