https://puri.sm/ Linux Journal had an article on laptops running Librem One. Any thoughts? I'm thinking laptops running Librem One may be better than what you get if you go with System76 or you try to repurpose the average Windows laptop. Privacy is important for business, though the target seems to be non business users. Until today, I had never heard of Librem One.
Purism is a "social benefit" company, aka a b-corp, that develops PureOS. I know of it, but not very much about it. My thoughts on this. Librem One is a subscription based secure app bundle that you can also buy with their laptop. There are tried and tested free apps such as Signal, protonmail and various free & paid internet vpn options. One of the obvious things missing from Librem's site is any kind of independent security review / endorsement. My read is that Librem One is that they're trying to position themselves for all the non-tech people who run away from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google as they realize how they've been exploited and how all their personal data is now owned by a big tech corporation. Any Linux distro is relatively secure for most every day uses, especially if you use a modern secure browser w. plugins like HTTPS Everywhere, uBlock Origin and end-to-end encrypted email and chat apps and stay away from all social medial sites. I did like the lil' bit I read about Librem Social. I'm not sure how it compares to Minds.com. Big corps are my biggest security concern. So many of them have piss poor security practices and are more concerned with profits than with their customer's personal data. Personally, I don't like the idea of putting all my personal security in 1 basket. No matter how socially beneficial their intentions are. In terms of personal data security, I think Solid, which is led by Sir Tim Berners Lee, has the best model that I've seen that is well thought out and has a really good chance of being widely adopted. https://solid.inrupt.com/how-it-works But in the end, no app or OS is going to save you from stupidity & negligence. As the say, security, and for that matter also privacy, is a process of learning and adapting to the ever changing digital landscape. And if you're not familiar with Security Self-Defense, I highly recommend you start here, https://ssd.eff.org/ https://solid.inrupt.com/how-it-works _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
