I’m kind of reluctant to get Purism products because it feels like an obvious vector for targeting those who want to ‘go dark’ that badly. [The Purism] products might be compromised in a way that renders interdiction redundant. Just a hunch though–nothing substantial to base this on. The same reas…

This to me is just plain panic making, sorry. The quoted Bloomberg story was a big thing in 2019 and totally underscored the FUD against China that the former administration spread. Fact discovered later on was that this whole story was simply not true, there were no compromised motherboards, end of…

It is not easy to compromise such a system designed for high security but it might be worth it because of the high value targets. I don’t think that it’s happening now in case of Purism. So this stays theoretical here. On the other side we have incidents like operation Rubikon which tells us how im…

[image] Gavaudan: It would make more sense to me to target hardware that many more people use In other words, it depends on whether it is targeted and what the motivation is. Criminals won’t target Purism products because the payoff is many orders of magnitude poorer than targeting Microsoft…

[image] irvinewade: If you are a high risk individual “they” seem to treat EVERYBODY that uses e2ee-services as ‘high risk individual’ > The EU must protect the right to privacy and not attack end-to-end encryption | Proton otherwise why bother ? [image] irvinewade: before governments w…

[image] fsflover: China inserting hardware backdoors So is Zyxel (software not hardware), so is Juniper at the NSA’s behest and Huawei thinks (FT.com paywall) the USA ditched them because there are no US-backdoors in Huawei products. Not that I condone anyone’s backdoors, but I don’t think …

Just out of curiousity, is Purism on their own servers? Self hosting? That seems to be the easiest way to take down their site and ability to sell, as well as credit cards, paypal, etc blocking them, as they did with Gab, who then had to build their own infrastructure, even their own email. I just d…

@Bass20 this is an interesting though but off-topic here. I suggest that you create another topic for such discussion.

on their Librem one page they say they use PureOS to HOST their services but they don’t say what cloud-provider they are using and certainly nothing about the underlying infrastructure ( no virtual-machine/container, bare-metal information, etc.) PureOS is all well and good … what about the rest ?

On that note, I’d like to see Purism host their own bitcoin processing instead of relying on third-parties.

Further discussion on the Qubes forum led to the famous (to Purism community) Interview With Zlatan Todoric and Jay Little posts, which were discussed here many times. I am sure I’ve seen most of the claims debunked, but I have a hard time finding that. Perhaps @amosbatto could help?

Purism products feel like an obvious vector for targeting

Hardware

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