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You Can Help Purism Build the Secure Open Source Linux-based Librem 5 Smartphone (betanews.com)
BrianFagioli writes: Thankfully, consumers are starting to wake up and become more aware of security and privacy, and some companies, such as Purism, are designing products to safeguard users. The company's laptops, for instance, run an open source Linux-based operating system, called "PureOS" with a focus on privacy. These machines even have hardware "kill switches" so you can physically disconnect a webcam or Wi-Fi card. Today, Purism announces that it is taking those same design philosophies and using them to build a new $599 smartphone called Librem 5. The planned phone will use the GNOME desktop environment and PureOS by default, but users can install different distros too. Sound good? Well you can help the company build it through crowdfunding. "Purism, the social purpose corporation which designs and produces popular privacy conscious hardware and software, has revealed its plans to build the world's first encrypted, open platform smartphone that will empower users to protect their digital identity in an increasingly unsafe mobile world. After 18 months of R&D to test hardware specifications and engage with one of the largest phone fabricators, Purism is opening a self-hosted crowdfunding campaign to gauge demand for the initial fabrication order and add the features most important to users," says Purism.
Fourth Reich is today's German government of Angela Merkel. The one that's successfully forced the EU to take in any Muslims who want to come, and is now trying to force countries like Poland, Czech, Hungary & Slovakia to do the same. The government that's not only thrown their women to the mercies of Muslim rapefugees, but also issues flyers on how to rape vaginally, as opposed to anally or orally. It was hard to imagine a German chancellor who'd be worse than Hitler, but Frau Merkel managed it!