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I think there was also the Sony jailbreaking guy who settled with Sony out of court.

It makes no sense for China to hack Sony over a movie, so why wouldn't this be bullshit too?

You are quite correct in implying that a TPM would prevent a repetition of the Sony scandal.

Of course, it is also possible that Sony in particular would not be given access to the magic key.

What's funny is that it's the current situation that allows companies like Sony to do that to your computer.

Let's posit that Sony (or another company) is in the consortium holding the TPM root key.

I regret I accidentally upvoted you when I meant to downvote, please excuse the Sony fat fingers.

I also have an Android phone from Sony and my wife has a Samsung Android phone - no updates there!

So, I'm not sure such a scheme would ever take off if companies like Sony can't secure their own infrastructure.

What reason do you think Sony is lying about being hacked?

I have the Sony Digital Paper and I can't say enough good things about it.

Until a working group is formed to share this technology with the likes of Samsung, Apple, Sony (major hardware device manufacturers), you can pretty much discount it.

Let alone to the extent of "destroying Sony's computer systems", whatever that's supposed to mean?

Edit: on my Sony VPC-J1 AOI machine that fails with "Windows 10 upgrade failed" after pissing around for an hour.

So, how do you see this trend being reversed through "trusted computing" to the point that we will all be forced to run Windows and Apple (effectively without the right to use root powers) and proprietary media players from Sony?

That's a bit like asking if there will be a full replacement for Hyundai, Samsung or Sony.

Google's source of revenue isn't just selling the phone, similarly Microsoft and Sony's source of revenue wasn't from selling the console.

And some of those (Sony) aren't exactly happy with them these days.