[$] Protecting systems with the TPM

"TPM," said Matthew Garrett in his linux.conf.au 2016 talk, stands for "trusted platform module"; it is a tool that is meant to allow a system'sowner to decide which software to trust. Some years ago, there was a lot offear that the TPM would be used, instead, to take that decision away, to allow othersto decide which software would be trusted to run on our systems; for that reason,some called "trusted computing" by the rather less complimentary name"treacherous computing." That scenario didn't come about, though, for anumber of reasons, both technical and social. But we can still use the TPM forits original purpose; Matthew was there to talk about his work to bringabout computing that we can trust.

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