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by Eriksrocks 923 days ago
You can't "dump" a TPM. That's the whole point. They are designed such that the cryptographic secrets they hold (including ones loaded at manufacturing) are unrecoverable without an electron microscope and nation-state level resources (and even then, it would be extremely difficult if not impossible on modern process nodes).
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> You can't "dump" a TPM.

> unrecoverable without an electron microscope and nation-state level resources (and even then, it would be extremely difficult if not impossible on modern process nodes).

Oh, so you can. It's only a matter of time.

Even with an electron microscope you wouldn't extract a root key it would just be a device key which they would then ban.
There's plenty that one would be able to do with a device key before it is banned.