So am I correct in understanding that this could be used to make a tool to unlock any encrypted disk that relies on the tpm whilst something like luks or indeed any solution that doesn’t rely on the bios being secure would be fine.

Note I’m talking about a stolen laptop not an evil maid situation.

This breaks protection not provided by legacy bios you are basically always at the degree of insecurity provided by this exploit.

Major corps are for many purposes self insured which is to say they eat their losses.

It is inevitable that protests at scale will attract opportunists. Just the cops being occupied elsewhere would do it. the stupidity is welcoming an aspect of civil unrest that is negative and just as stupid for you to call it a reasonable position. I have seen plenty of meaningful protests without looting. The kind and degree of malfeasance is absolutely something we can control and effect.

It’s actually a fairly stupid position because random theft helps the other side paint the side you presumably care about as criminals whilst others actually care about the issues.