TPM Boosters Inside Debian (TPM Isn't About Security, It is About Control Over Users and Their Machines)
TIGER COMPUTING LTD seems to be running out of money. It has debt and less than 100,000 pounds left in the bank, according to "full accounts" as signed only some weeks ago:
As we've just mentioned, they have a history of threatening sites that talk about them [1, 2, 3] and only days ago we saw the name of someone who worked and maybe still works there*.
A week ago he promoted TPM inside Debian:
This is the FSF just over two weeks ago (about TPM):
We're not rushing to any conclusions here, but given the SSH scandal in Debian sometimes it does feel like GCHQ got its foot inside the door (of the Debian Project). It's akin to social engineering. The subject should not be dismissed as "conspiracy theory" since GCHQ et al should be very much expected to do this. They openly boast about and demand remote access to everything. Why would they just leave Debian alone? So many distros - including Ubuntu and its derivatives - are descendants of Debian. With IBM, the spies already have RHEL "in the bag" (they don't even share all the source code anymore). █
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* Well, it's not a large company; it's basically run by two people; Sirius Open Source is down to only one after an ugly divorce and infidelity; the CEO fled the country after he had committed pension fraud against men and women in his company.