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