Driver updates on librem 5

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@Dlonk

I’m a bit curious if a sufficient answer to the original question is found.

I’ll post here if/when I hear back from Purism and/or SparkLAN.

@Dlonk

But once we create faith-based computer security – that is to say, “I want to have faith tcpdump is telling the truth” – that we put ourselves completely at the mercy of people whose entirely livelihood depends on hacking us. [Isn’t that what all the other devices were anyway, though?]

I don’t think this is fair. There are people whose livlihoods depend on hacking random people (either for clearly nefarious or self-righteous, but possibly reckless, reasons) but most tools like tcpdump are made by people who are just trying to make their computers work right and are gracious enough to share their code.

@JR-Fi

The separation of the cards (modem and wifi/BT) is supposed to be the protection against potentially exploitable hardware.

I missed this before. Do you know of an official article explaining this in more detail? Internet searches didn’t find an authoritative source. If I can drop the trust level of my WiFi chip to the trust level of my router, that would be a HUGE win.

@Dlonk

What is your phone for? Can you give a specific answer to that question?

One of the important use-cases is for work. If I’m at risk of dropping text messages for hours or longer I can’t use this phone.

A use-case that I am concerned about for the future is sensitive political discussions, which is why I’m so concerned about CVE patching. That’s the kind of thing that would be worth investing resources to target me as an individual, rather than the dragnet surveillance that I’ve historically been concerned about on principle.