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I think their messaging is pretty clear. These are laptops built with a focus towards keeping your information private.

• hasenj 11y ago
  But that doesn't really say much! How does their hardware tackle privacy issues? What do they do exactly?
  • geographomics 11y ago
    Not much, according to this article, as there are many firmware blobs that are still entirely opaque: http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2015/02/23/the-truth-about-purism-why-librem-is-not-the-same-as-libre/ http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2015/02/23/the-truth-about-pu...
  • duskwuff 11y ago
    They put some power switches on the webcam/microphone and wireless modules. That's about it. They also disabled signature verification on the chipset firmware, but it's not clear that solves any privacy issues, given that the only extant firmware is the closed-source one from Intel. (If anything, disabling signatures is a net negative for privacy, as the authors of a malicious replacement wouldn't even need access to Intel's signing key to create one.)
    • yuhong 11y ago
      Intel Boot Guard is about the BIOS, not the "chipset firmware".