RYF certification L5

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@user1

They should link or show info at Putting Software Freedom in Perspective – Purism in their product page because that would be more truthful.

Agree. Communication never was their best part. But (eventual) shipping is.

@user1

Also, they shouldn’t do that image of trying to make it seem like the computer is nearly entirely safe by showing a huge area of what runs on the computer to be liberated when the core components of how the computer works in the first place and runs first is proprietary and not under their control.

Disagree. The existing proprietary part of the Coreboot is really tiny, measured in kilobytes. Intel ME shows errors and most probably can’t function.

@user1

Well yes they are better than a lot of others but they aren’t 100% so why do they have the word in the name?

They are better than everything else. See below. Also, Purism is the only company officially saying they want to change the industry for the better and won’t stop even after they receive RYF certification.

@user1

@fsflover

Did you hear about the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities?

Heard but not very much about of.

Meltdown and Spectre

Meltdown (security vulnerability)

Any program running on your fully libre laptop can read the memory of any other program. Javascript on any website can read all your passwords. Vulnerability is in the proprietary CPU microcode, below the level of Libreboot, and cannot be fixed. I do not recommend to use such laptops or advise them to others.