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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2019, @12:00AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2019, @12:00AM (#810928)

    You connect with Verizon/AT&T/Skynet, you are getting tracked.

    What do you want, magic privacy?

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by exaeta on Thursday March 07 2019, @12:08AM

    by exaeta (6957) on Thursday March 07 2019, @12:08AM (#810932) Homepage Journal
    Some people would like to be able to you know, use a phone? If the cellular providers can track us, so be it. But lets at least remove their root access. One step at a time we can work towards a free device. The ambitions of replicant are unachievable in a single step. Instead, the Open Source community must slowly build market influence to force the hand of internet service providers. Purism is a step in that direction that has a chance of actually working.
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    The Government is a Bird