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Does not seem to work.

Does not seem to work.

Posted Dec 4, 2008 23:39 UTC (Thu) by droundy (subscriber, #4559)
In reply to: Does not seem to work. by hummassa
Parent article: System integrity in Linux

I think the point is that with TPM, you would need a software vulnerability + physical access to compromise the system, rather than just physical access. The software vulnerability issue is why they want to combine TPM with SELinux, since TPM doesn't do anything to plug software security holes.


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