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"The most popular mobile operating system on the planet, Android, is already based on Linux, but with Google in charge of it, many consumers cannot depend on it for privacy. With that said, Purism is planning to fight the impossible fight against Android and iOS with the "Librem 5" smartphone. This is a device that will run a privacy-focused Linux-based OS called "Pure OS," but the hardware is wide open for any OS, really. Purism is trying to raise $1.5 million through crowdfunding, and earlier today, it reached a significant milestone -- $1 million! Maybe the fight isn't impossible after all..." - via BetaNews
In the news:
https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15436716
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15090156
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/74cl80/purism_librem_5_has_surpassed_1000000_raised_in/
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/75bjmp/librem_5_funded_hooray/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 11 2017, @03:57AM (1 child)
Last time I saw this phone come up on Soylent, it was mentioned that it will still come with a standard baseband processor running a standard, un-auditable, proprietary software stack. Put all the Open Source you want on top of that and it still isn't any more secure than iOS or Android. And even if the NSA can't do a back door, they will still be able to issue secret warrants which a tiny company like Purism won't have the legal funds to fight.
In the the end, this is all just fluffy marketing to a different kind of hipster.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday October 11 2017, @10:47AM
A baseband residing outside the SoC is a fairly dumb modem. It will likely communicate with the OS over pppd much like how Openwrt\LEDE is used in conjunction with external VDSL modems with about the same risks and same mitigation strategies (end-to-end encryption done on main CPU).
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