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post #1 of 4
6/18/07 at 10:10pm
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Hey guys, I bought a T60p for the Advanced Dock. This is my first ThinkPad (prior owner of Dell, Toshiba, NEC, ...) and so far I am very very impressed with it.

I am trying to get it as thin as possible on software and have already removed some unneeded junk.

I keep getting pestered about some security chip? I'm guessing that there is a chip in this thing that provides various security services (ie, TPM, file/drive encryption, HD decoding, etc). I would like to get rid of the login shim since I don't have the thumbprint or smart card readers. Is there anyway to get rid of that while still allowing the chip to do the minimum that it has to do?

Anybody know of any white papers or other documentation about this thing? I'm curious about it.

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post #2 of 4
6/19/07 at 1:59am
Your should give IBM Custormer service a call, they should steer you in the right direction.
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post #3 of 4
6/19/07 at 2:18am
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I did, they told me how to remove the login shim (uninstall the Secure Client stuff) and walked through deleting the keys in the chip's memory too.

They didn't seem to know what it was used for entirely. They think it's just used for file encryption and said it did not provide any TPM or anything else, but disabling the chip in the BIOS makes Winders complain about missing TPM...
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post #4 of 4
6/24/07 at 11:00am
I have the secure chip disabled on day 1, no problem here ...
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