It was great for a time.

Agreed. Wrong word choice. And its an important, major correction. Not a small one. :-)

I don’t know about intentionally designing that. It would violate contracts and have to be a hidden, but broadly conspiratorial activity. I have some professional experience in consumer electronics, and I remember when TPMs started becoming a required component for CE. It took several years to become commonplace; a slow transition from security by obscurity to sensible practices when devices started to be internet connected.

Nevertheless, from my experience, I’d say the TPMs aren’t there for user security, they are there to keep Hollywood movies safe.

+100. People forget, or chose not to pay attention to the fact that Google sensor vault data was key evidence in convicting the January 6 insurrectionists (who were exonerated to become ICE). Surveillance capitalism doesn’t care which side you are on.

Just to clarify… my question wasn’t “do sleepers exist” it was should we continue to call them sleepers when they have broad access to the administrative branch of the US government.

And then, unless you jumped through hoops to disable it, your PC sends the key to Microsoft so they can just keep it linked to your account.

You’d probably also have to jump through the hoops to disable windows recall too.

Are they really sleepers any more?

Headline is super misleading… the article says that chat gpt told him it couldn’t give him drug advice, and that he should seek help. He goactually got good advice from chat gpt, but didn’t like it, didn’t trust the good advice chat gpt gave him, then spent months trying to get chat gpt to give him the dodgy advice he wanted.

Of course chat GPT shouldn’t be giving that sort of advice, but man that headline is as misleading as it gets. He literally didn’t trust the advice he got from chat gpt to seek help.