Librem 5 Verification against Hardware attacks during Manufacturing [RESOLVED]

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Super Micro spy chips embedded on motherboards

In contrast to just buying ready made boards like for servers, the Librem5 is designed exclusively for us, we get to know every part, we get the schematics, gerbers and all manufacturing data, we carefully verify and analyze all of this and all production steps. Thus it is close to impossible to sneak in additional parts into the device. (“Close to impossible” means, if someone with really a lot of criminal energy bribing the manufacturer and introducing some malicious devices into our productio…

Ambivalence of Librem 5 being made in China

Hi, thank you for raising these not totally unfounded concerns. But I can assure to you that chances are very low that anything like this could happen to the Librem5 and here is why. First of all please keep in mind that we are not using some kind of OEM design to base the Librem5 upon. The design of Librem5 is 100% exclusively done for Purism and we control and monitor every step in this design process. We review schematics and our hardware engineers regularly request changes to match the ver…