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by transpute 3084 days ago
> TPMs ... Google is quietly working to remove them from their own machines

Are you referring to Chromebooks or Google's cloud server hardware? Are the TPMs being replaced with a proprietary hardware enclave?

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It looks like they built their own chips for their servers:

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/08/Titan-in-depth-...

Notable quote:

"Google designed Titan's hardware logic in-house to reduce the chances of hardware backdoors. The Titan ecosystem ensures that production infrastructure boots securely using authorized and verifiable code."

This is what we need. Authorized and verifiable code, none of this opaque binary blob BS.

Google's code/hardware logic is an opaque binary blob to you. What difference does it make whether the binary blob is a Google chip or a TPM?
Sorry, what I meant to say was that we need those types of verifiable and transparent chips in our own computers rather than ME and PSP