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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 02:07:22AM -0800, Raymond Jennings wrote:
> Just curious here, but is this as much of an issue if a user is
> somehow able to take ownership of his own machine?

No, if you're doing your own key management then it's no problem at 
all.

> I'm assuming this is related to TPM somehow.

No, completely unrelated.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org