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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 darkfeline on Thursday March 07 2019, @06:21AM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Thursday March 07 2019, @06:21AM (#811057) Homepage

    Just because your placebo is better than that other placebo that causes cancer doesn't mean you can advertise your placebo as a cure.

    Just because other phones actively violate your privacy doesn't mean you can advertise your phone which doesn't protect your privacy as a phone that protects your privacy.

    "I do not see anyone else offering a better alternative." is not a valid argument against "This phone does not do what it is advertised to do".

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