Off-Topic • [Discussion] Why nobody talks about MS Pluton?

Back in 2022 Microsoft, together with AMD, Qualcomm and Intel, put Pluton "chip-to-cloud" (yes, it's seriously called that) out into production. Pluton was announced by MS back in 2020
It's yet another pseudo-security chip which seems to be worse than it's precedessors:

• Introduces "remote attestation", which basically means that yer hardware will regularly call MS mothership to make sure ye run "genuine software" (whatever they mean...)
• Unlike TPM, Pluton has permament identificator which doesn't change on hardware modification (I wonder if it can be used as IMEI counterpart in computers)
• It's designed to be root-of-trust (again, what?) for Azure Sphere IoT anomaly - not gonna lie, totally a must-have on PCs
• Barely anything is known about it, most current articles about it are MS-biased babble about "Xbox-like "security"" for W11

Things that don't differ from precedessors:

• Non-free blackbox
• Enforced into hardware and can't be disabled
• Raises security and privacy concerns

Why there's no word 'bout it anymore? There was some interest back in 2022 and today nobody mentions anything about it anymore - while it's already a real thing baked into Zen4 Ryzens (I can find no information if Intel Core 13/14th generation use Pluton or still ME; As I said, there's no information or I couldn't find anything on that)
I don't know how about ye, but I'm not interested into yet another blackbox which can be even more malicious than previous "security" hardware - for me AMD PSP / Intel ME raise enough controversy and concerns

Statistics: Posted by Hetzer — 2024-02-21 12:40 — Replies 0 — Views 39

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