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"DSP chips are much more vulnerable to risks as they are being managed as ‘Black Boxes’ since it can be very complex for anyone other than their manufacturer to review their design, functionality or code." arstechnica.com/information-te

If proprietary code were higher quality than free software, you wouldn't have to spend so much time "cleaning it up" before open sourcing it.

If you didn't port your app to libhandy 1, now is the best time. We even have a migration guide to help you! gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/l

If you ported to a libhandy 1 alpha, I also strongly recommend you to update to 0.90 as you are guaranteed you won't have to change a thing after.

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Big news: Geoffrey Knauth has been elected president of the FSF, and Odile Bénassy has joined the board of directors! Congratulations to Geoff, and welcome to Odile! u.fsf.org/34q

This extensive and thoughtful post by a member of the community does a good job of explaining the past and present mobile Linux ecosystem and why Purism's approach with phosh makes strategic sense long-term. amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2020/

One of the most interesting things to me about NSA's document on cellphone tracking is that all their mitigations rely on software features they admit are flawed and could be hacked. This is why we rely on hardware to prevent tracking on the : puri.sm/posts/how-librem-5-sol

How Librem 5 Solves NSA's Warning About Cellphone Location Data

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"We have been thinking about the danger of location data on cellphones for a long time at Purism..."

@wsj

Original article: wsj.com/articles/nsa-warns-cel

Customers are asking us about the recent GRUB2 vulnerability so I wrote a quick post explaining how it works and why @purism hardware isn't affected. For even more details, check out Dan Goodin's excellent Ars Technica article I link in my post.

puri.sm/posts/why-the-grub2-se

I just wrote a blog post for @purism to share my thoughts (and excitement) about the Librem 14.

I haven't been that excited for a computer for years! It has almost everything that I am looking for in a laptop. I can't wait!

puri.sm/posts/librem-14-though

TikTok offers 3rd parties to audit their code to quiet concerns. Auditability, not just of TikTok w/ hand-picked regulators/experts, is critical for software we rely on. For real privacy and security, you want software w/ a license. washingtonpost.com/technology/

Librem 14 Adds Microphone Kill Switch Enhancements

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"I’m pleased to announce another enhancement that will be in the Librem 14: the microphone kill switch will also kill microphones connected through the headphone jack"

We're just a grasshopper nation wondering why we can't have the same outcome as ant nations without putting in the work.

I appreciate this view might seem radical to some. But I prefer people get my consent before posting pictures of me, and I'm extending the same courtesy to my child, recognizing he can't yet consent. I err on the side of not sharing, since you can't unring that bell.

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You don't own your child's persona. You are entrusted with protecting it. Their images belong to them, sharing them w/o consent (age of consent rules apply here) could harm their future when they take ownership of their permanent online record.

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I'm glad to see mainstream pieces on the issues behind sharing kid pics. I treat my child's online persona like a financial trust in his name: I am a trustee charged to manage/protect it until he is old enough to take ownership. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2

So now car companies will be faced with the choice of harvesting and selling our data, or leaving money on the table and facing shareholder wrath. Does @purism needs to make a car with hardware kill switches? vice.com/en_us/article/m7jpmp/

“But safety is only one attraction of in-cabin monitoring. The systems also hold huge potential for harvesting the kind of behavioral data that Google, Facebook, and other surveillance capitalists have exploited to target ads and influence purchasing habits.”

vice.com/en_us/article/m7jpmp/

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