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TPM offers key security guarantees: it ensures the integrity of the boot process, provides secure storage for cryptographic keys and sensitive data, and allows platform attestation to prove system integrity to remote parties. These guarantees benefit system owners by protecting hardware from unauthorized changes, software vendors by securing their software environment, and remote parties by enabling trusted transactions.

TPM isn't just for DRM. It ensures overall system security and trustworthiness. A website might query a TPM to verify a device's security before granting access to sensitive data, but an ad network has no reason to disable DRM. If they try, it's suspicious and unethical.

The TPM-js mentioned is a virtual TPM that shows how TPM works without actually accessing the hardware TPM from a website. It's purely educational.



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