Got it, I misunderstood before. This sounds true to me.
To clarify, I don’t mean simply expressing a political point of view, I mean strategic and tactical discussions about how to advance a political agenda (potential legislation, demonstrations, etc). A political opponent would find these conversations valuable even though everything discussed is completely legal.
Thank you! These are helpful. The comparison to typical smartphone cards in Faerber’s forum post and the picture of the removable WiFi/BT m.2 card in the purism article helped it “click” for me. It sounds like this is stronger isolation than I would typically find, but not quite “trust as little as my router”.
The ability to check for malicious hardware devices by releasing specs and x-rays is good and should be an industry standard, but I don’t think I’m knowledgeable enough about hardware to check it myself. I have looked at the motherboard on my Librem 14 before, and I can identify what some of the components are, but I don’t know if any of the components are malicious. I’m also concerned abut the presence of 2 chips available for flashing when following the hardware flashing instruction. Why are there 2 chips? Is one of them a spy chip? Reading the images from a Raspberry Pi wired directly to it showed identical copies, but if it is a hardware spy device I would expect it to just send the wrong image unless it’s unlocked through some magic mechanism. I don’t know how to investigate this further and it’s entirely possible that there’s a legitimate reason for this, so I just keep using the laptop. I am worried about ending up in the same position with the phone.