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Perfectly good systems almost certainly vulnerable to unpatched firmware vulnerabilities due to their age.

Running a system, especially portable or critical without fTPM is not wise, more so due to Bitlocker security enhancements with TPM available.




I still happily run a 486 laptop (T6600C) and it's even networked. No evil hackers spotted so far. For some reason can't find an fTPM module for it.


What OS are you on?


FreeDOS. Works great for retrogaming, you know.


These anecdotes are better left for reddit as they're irrelevant to this particular discussion.




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