DRM is wired into intel macs
Yes, folks it appears to be true.
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an exerpt:
DRM protection and trusted computing enabling chip is found to be wired inside the new Intel-based Macs while no official statement, documentation or press release that tells consumers about its existence.
Here is the link for more info!
an exerpt:
DRM protection and trusted computing enabling chip is found to be wired inside the new Intel-based Macs while no official statement, documentation or press release that tells consumers about its existence.
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What has this to do with Apple?
It's simple: it is not clear whether the newMacs with the Intel chip inside that are now on sale do have a TPM chip installed in them or not.
What?
Originally posted by Anders
And further down:
What?
....and further further down...
UPDATE - April 1st 2006
This is not an April Fool?s day hoax; yesterday I received the pictures of a iMac 1.83 monoprocessor's motherboard.
The images show a Infineon chip with the following code: SLB9635TT12 - G546K1V 00Za544257. This one could be the TPM chip: as it has been noted in the comments provide by my readers, the first line of the caption is like the one that was on the TPM Infineon chip installed on Intel Macs for developers.
I have also more detailed pictures of the motherboard: the complete image-set is accessible on Flickr. If anyone is capable to further identify the chip on the basis of these identification codes (Google does not reveal anything by searching for them), please post it in the comments.
Originally posted by TednDi
The images show a Infineon chip with the following code: SLB9635TT12 - G546K1V 00Za544257. This one could be the TPM chip: as it has been noted in the comments provide by my readers, the first line of the caption is like the one that was on the TPM Infineon chip installed on Intel Macs for developers.
now this is hardly suprising, is it?
maxxuss has commented how he 'disabled' the tpm in his osx86-hacks, so the presence of such a chip in the released machines was well known.
considering the direction itunes and apple in general seem to go, tpm is a must-have for future macs.
This doesn't have anything to do with music, am I right?
Originally posted by thegreatluke
This doesn't have anything to do with music, am I right?
not yet, but it will in a not too distant future. (as commercial media content in general.)
Make your time.
Intel already tried it with the serial number in their PIIIs... it didn't work. Here we go again stepping on the same rake... people just never learn.
Originally posted by wmf
Apple used the TPM for "boot DRM" and Maxxus cracked it. If Apple tries to use the TPM for music DRM, it will be cracked soon enough (imagine if Maxxus and DVD Jon joined forces). In theory TPMs can be used for uncrackable DRM, but I don't think anyone has actually made it work.
i was actually quite suprised how weak the implementation was in macos x for intel.
maybe the didnt really try and is saving the effort for 10.5?
the xbox 360 was also (kinda) hacked recently in a almost silly way. i wonder if software/system designers put too much trust into that little chip?
Originally posted by skatman
My ass is also wired for DRM with the smelly farting platform chip!
Intel already tried it with the serial number in their PIIIs... it didn't work. Here we go again stepping on the same rake... people just never learn.
Yep. Like Steve told the music companies, "We have Ph.D.s here who know this stuff cold, and they say it can't be done."
No matter what chip you use, somewhere the OS has to have code to call into the chip. Find that code and no-op it, and that's all there is to it.
Originally posted by skatman
My ass is also wired for DRM with the smelly farting platform chip!
Perhaps you should upgrade.
Garbage in ... Garbage out!