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In 2015 [[Richard Stallman]] suggested to replace the term "Trusted computing" with the term "Treacherous computing" due to the danger that the computer can be made to systematically disobey its owner if the cryptographical keys are kept secret from them. He also considers that TPMs available for PCs in 2015 are not currently{{clarify timeframe|date=December 2022}} dangerous and that there is no reason '''not''' to include one in a computer or support it in software due to failed attempts from the industry to use that technology for [[Digital rights management|DRM]], but that the TPM2 released in 2022 is precisely the "[[Trusted Computing|treacherous computing]]" threat he had warned of.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Can You Trust Your Computer? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation|url=https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html|access-date=2023-09-06|website=www.gnu.org}}</ref>

LinuxLinus Torvalds in 2023 wrote that there is no way to believe that randomness generated by TPM is any better than randomness generated anyway by the CPU, and there is no point in supporting randomness from a firmware source.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Neowin · |first=Sayan Sen |date=2024-10-23 |title=Linus Torvalds seems frustrated with AMD Ryzen fTPM bugs and issues, suggests disabling |url=https://www.neowin.net/news/linus-torvalds-seems-frustrated-with-amd-ryzen-ftpm-bugs-and-issues-suggests-disabling/ |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=Neowin |language=en}}</ref>

== Attacks ==