Trent W. Buck via luv-talk wrote:
Andrew McGlashan via luv-talk wrote:
On 24/1/19 11:44 am, Trent W. Buck via luv-talk wrote:
Rohan McLeod via luv-talk wrote:
Interested to hear [about] Librem_5 mobile phone; which claims to be 'crowd-sourced' more secure hardware running more secure OS ; ("PureOS" seems to be a Debian variant) https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ I have been watching on the sidelines while some friends considered them. IIUC the short version is:
1. you can't build a smartphone that's safe for paranoid people.
Trent I'm not sure that one must be [Oxford concise] " suffering from mental derangement, especially when marked by delusions of grandeur, persecution etc" to want anonymity except; when the social, commercial or legal situation demands something less. After all that is the defacto norm ; apparently everywhere except the internet! As for security we mostly settle for "more secure" rather than secure. Who is about to live without locks on their front doors; just because there exist people with the equipment and skills to crack tumbler door locks ? Thus I see it as perfectly sane to look for a mobile-phone, whose hardware and software is "safer" and hopefully much less annoying than iPhones and Android phones regards Rohan McLeod