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Purism Becomes PIA’s First OEM Partner

24 points by kgwxd 8y ago

mike-cardwell 8y ago
What exactly is this? We would already be able to use PIA with a Librem 5 anyway, as it uses standard VPN protocols... Is this free access to a PIA VPN for Librem 5 owners, or is it just a UI to funnel us into PIAs commercial offering?
- subway 8y ago
  I'm betting it'll be x months free with the device along with a mostly-pre-configured profile.
- random878 8y ago
  It's more marketing BS to push the idea that somehow purisms products are Freedom and Privacy respecting.
  - acct1771 8y ago
    They're not?
HansLandaa 8y ago
Seems like great news! I'm really excited to read reviews of the Librem 5 when it's released in the third quarter.
SahAssar 8y ago
I don't necessarily distrust Private Internet Access, but offering a few different vetted options would be better IMO.
random878 8y ago
Perfect match. They both offer a heavily marketed appearance of being Freedom and Privacy respecting, but actually just relying on the ignorance of customers.
- NoahAndrews 8y ago
  I don't know much about Purism. What do you have against them?
- jkartchner 8y ago
  I'm not sure what other companies are trying the same thing. Staying with companies that definitely peddle your data and privacy versus investing in a company who hopefully promotes a better way seems pretty straightforward to me. What hardware and software vendors should the 'smart' customers be buying from?
- RandomBacon 8y ago
  A US-based VPN (or really any VPN) is only going to help someone so much, but what's wrong with Purism? They have a distro that doesn't spy on you and hardware switches, and their upcoming phone seperates the modem as a USB peripheral to mitigate the modem's firmware.
commoner 8y ago
Private Internet Access is a decent partner since they announced that they would gradually open source their software in March 2018. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16595975 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16595975 While PIA did open source their iOS app and browser extensions, I'm a bit disappointed to see that their Android and desktop apps are still proprietary. https://pia-foss.github.io/ https://pia-foss.github.io/

24 points by kgwxd 8y ago

What exactly is this? We would already be able to use PIA with a Librem 5 anyway, as it uses standard VPN protocols... Is this free access to a PIA VPN for Librem 5 owners, or is it just a UI to funnel us into PIAs commercial offering?

subway 8y ago
I'm betting it'll be x months free with the device along with a mostly-pre-configured profile.
random878 8y ago
It's more marketing BS to push the idea that somehow purisms products are Freedom and Privacy respecting.
- acct1771 8y ago
  They're not?

HansLandaa 8y ago

Seems like great news! I'm really excited to read reviews of the Librem 5 when it's released in the third quarter.

SahAssar 8y ago

I don't necessarily distrust Private Internet Access, but offering a few different vetted options would be better IMO.

random878 8y ago

Perfect match. They both offer a heavily marketed appearance of being Freedom and Privacy respecting, but actually just relying on the ignorance of customers.

NoahAndrews 8y ago
I don't know much about Purism. What do you have against them?
jkartchner 8y ago
I'm not sure what other companies are trying the same thing. Staying with companies that definitely peddle your data and privacy versus investing in a company who hopefully promotes a better way seems pretty straightforward to me. What hardware and software vendors should the 'smart' customers be buying from?
RandomBacon 8y ago
A US-based VPN (or really any VPN) is only going to help someone so much, but what's wrong with Purism? They have a distro that doesn't spy on you and hardware switches, and their upcoming phone seperates the modem as a USB peripheral to mitigate the modem's firmware.

commoner 8y ago

Private Internet Access is a decent partner since they announced that they would gradually open source their software in March 2018. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16595975 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16595975 While PIA did open source their iOS app and browser extensions, I'm a bit disappointed to see that their Android and desktop apps are still proprietary. https://pia-foss.github.io/ https://pia-foss.github.io/