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Has anyone else noticed that, on Purism's website[1], you can only select "Don't Include" for the TPM dialog box if you have also selected the "English (UK)" ke
by sfRattan 9y ago
Has anyone else noticed that, on Purism's website[1], you can only select "Don't Include" for the TPM dialog box if you have also selected the "English (UK)" keyboard layout option? Or is this some bug in my particular web browser?
For a company whose advertising copy on their "Why Purism?" page includes, "We believe people should have secure devices that protect them rather than exploit them,"[2] only allowing removal of the TPM chip for a particular keyboard layout is a pretty big red flag.
[1]: https://puri.sm/shop/librem-13/ https://puri.sm/shop/librem-13/
[2]: https://puri.sm/why-purism/ https://puri.sm/why-purism/
- noobermin 9y agoHanlon's razor. Or may be the a soft version of it that says the most likely explanation is it's a mistake.
- cbsmith 9y agoAs the QubeOS folks will tell you, TPM is necessary for Anti Evil Maid.
- ghancock 9y agoThis https://puri.sm/posts/tpm-by-default-and-free-international-shipping/ https://puri.sm/posts/tpm-by-default-and-free-international-... says they are moving to including the TPM in all systems, but there are some UK models left in stock without it. The TPM is a security feature--you don't have to use it. I have not used it on my laptop but I see from the documentation that it is different from some other trusted computing systems in that the end user controls the keys and what is loadable, not the vendor.