The Limits of TPM

Already over 20 million PCs worldwide are equipped with a tiny security chip called the Trusted Platform Module, although it is as yet rarely activated. But once merchants and other online services begin to use it, the TPM will do something never before seen on the Internet: provide virtually fool-proof verification that you are who you say you are.

Source: MSNBC

Wrong. It will prove that your machine is your machine.

Here’s a scenario:
Young person in a coffee shop with a laptop browsing the Web. They get up for a second – then (enter bad-guy), snatch and run. Now “bad-guy or gal” doesn’t need a password to login to your bank account online. Or savings, or Amazon account, etc.

That could be the not-so-distant future for two basic reasons.

1. People don’t use security.
2. Snatch and run is effective in any century.

Not to mention the privacy concerns. I have opened up a can of worms, feel free to add and take.