Oshwm: Seems reasonable. It would be cool if consumers started valuing
   privacy-oriented products, now the whole plot is lost once a company
   uses a 3rd party load balancer? Nice.
   "Every hardware chip individually selected for being
   freedom-respecting"
   Is that in the datasheet for each chip "no backdoors & 100% certified
   vulnerability free"? Does an Intel chipset laptop manufactured in
   Shenzen really count as 'thoughtful and freedom respecting'?
   “Getting rid of the signature checking is an important step. While it
   doesn’t give us free code for the firmware, it means that users will
   really have control of the firmware once we get free code for it.” -
   Dr. Richard M. Stallman
   And without signature checks how will we prevent un-solicited BIOS
   modification?
   Securing their Trisquel derived distro?
   RMS doesn't have 'robust against nation state attackers' on his
   platform for GNU. They're still just trying to get people to comply
   with the license & refer to it as 'gnu / linux'.
   Don't mistake a 'FOSS' laptop for a 'Privacy Laptop' just because they
   installed a switch for the webcam. The privacy stuff is just the work
   of marketing.
   -Travis

   On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Oshwm <[1]oshwm@openmailbox.org>
   wrote:

   Links go via cloudflare so privacy already abused before even
   purchasing.
   On 14 September 2015 03:11:12 BST, Alfie John <[2]alfiej@fastmail.fm>
   wrote:

Just saw these this morning:
  [3]https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism
  [4]https://puri.sm/
Although a physical switch to kill the webcam and mic seems obvious,
this is the first laptop I've seen with them built in.
Overall thoughts?
Alfie

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References

   1. mailto:oshwm@openmailbox.org
   2. mailto:alfiej@fastmail.fm
   3. https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism
   4. https://puri.sm/
   5. https://twitter.com/tbiehn
   6. http://www.linkedin.com/in/travisbiehn
   7. http://github.com/tbiehn
   8. http://www.travisbiehn.com/
   9. https://plus.google.com/+TravisBiehn