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Librem5 - Purism Avoids Admitting it Does Not have Better Privacy When Used as a Phone

posted by martyb on Wednesday March 06 2019, @07:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-free-is-it,-anyway? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Someone shared on Trisquel's forums a direct email communication with Purism revealing the way the company avoids being fully transparent about the fact that their device does not offer better privacy when used *as a phone* — it has privacy advantages only when the phone functionality is completely turned off, in which case the questioner claims it is nothing more than a pocket (or even stationary) PC.

Source:

https://trisquel.info/en/forum/librem5-and-why-i-am-no-longer-interested

 
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  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday March 06 2019, @10:37PM (2 children)

    by krishnoid (1156) on Wednesday March 06 2019, @10:37PM (#810894)

    By having a "completely turn off the phone functionality" feature in the first place? That sounds like ... success?

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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday March 07 2019, @01:10AM (1 child)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Thursday March 07 2019, @01:10AM (#810957) Journal

    I presume you mean a hardware break the circuit type "turn off" not a software signal indicating it should turn off (exactly why one must currently remove the battery to get privacy presently) -- but yeah, that is basically the best we can get at this point if you wish to have a phone.

    • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Thursday March 07 2019, @01:42AM

      by krishnoid (1156) on Thursday March 07 2019, @01:42AM (#810964)

      I don't know why it can't be a 'slide a plastic strip across the battery contacts' thing instead of removing the whole battery, though.