Look what came in the mail? My @purism Librem 5, but I am still waiting on my SIM card For the Librem cell service for some testing between that and @Efani but this will be an interesting review of the battle of the privacy phone ecosystems I have made.
Android/Graphene OS on Pixel 7a and PureOS on Purism Librem 5
#infosec #cybersecurity #linux #opensource #cellphone #review #privacy

Doing my initial tinkering of the @purism Librem 5 phone and WOW. I am impressed it’s truly full #Linux I just installed @element using apt out the box. Their official instructions! Taking the phone apart as well and thoroughly impressed
#cellphone #infosec #cybersecurity #review #privacy

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Turns out I didn’t need @element as the @purism has #Matrix built into the native chat app. This is measurably getting better and better as a #security and #privacy phone. I’m still installing it for better chat room capability but THIS IS AWESOME.
#linux #encryption #infosec #cybersecurity #opensourcd

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This is so awesome to use full #Linux instead of Android or iOS on the @purism Librem 5. I don’t think it will ever be a primary phone but it’s a good secondary phone I can recommend. Especially if I can load it up with some security tools for my job. I’ll have to try the @PINE64 Pine phone as well at some point. But this blew me away with how well it works
#infosec #cybersecurity #opensource #phone

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@purism YO! I did a long command and my screen fell asleep and it gave me a notification my nmap command finished running this is SICK! Really loving this Purism Librem 5. Neither #android nor #ios just pure #linux #opensource
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I think the @purism Librem 5 should have the memory boosted from 3GB of RAM to at least 4GB of RAM and storage boosted from 32GB of eMMC to 128GB of eMMC. The #Librem5 also needs autocorrect on the keyboard badly, it’s pretty hard to reliably use to text compared to my #iPhone and pixel. I will be testing Waydroid soon for #Android app support soon for Signal, Discord, and some streaming apps possibly. Plus testing media from SD card soon #linux #cellphone #infosec #cybersecurity

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@chiefgyk3d @purism The Liberty Phone (aka Librem 5 USA) comes with 4GB RAM and 128GB eMMC already! Regular Librem 5s were already produced with 3GB/32GB though so they will have to sell through first 😜

@dos @purism steep price increase for that little improvement. I would rather them release a board upgrade we can swap out.

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