Hi! sorry for going little bit OT I'm *desperately* looking forward for hardware I can trust, so librem5 is giving me *some* hope, but... Vagrant Cascadian writes: [...] > https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-2018-09-hardware-report/ > > Apparently they will use wifi/bluetooth/cellular that has proprietary > firmware, but burned into the hardware, which is compliant with the RYF > guidelines... still in 2018 the hardware landscape is so sad that a quite "freedom committed" vendor [1] cannot find a better alternative than to use a proprietary wifi and bluetooth stack: OK, RFY compliant but what _when_ (not if) a serious bug will be found on that firmware? are we sure wifi/bluetooth cannot be used as "side channel" vector attacks? callular (baseband) merits a dedicated chapter, since it seems practically impossible *forever* to trust that chips... and that chips are an important attack vector (Purism will use USB bus to separate baseband from CPU) this also means we will _never_ be able to trust communications via baseband (2G, 3G... 5G), fortunately this can be fixed using a trusted _separated_ SoC and the very good work coming from the vast and smart FLOSS community [2] :-) [...] Ciao Giovanni [1] citing from the above mentioned article: «This is highlighting the fact that Purism, as a social purpose corporation, will push our strict agenda of software and user freedoms upstream into the supply chain.» [2] looking at you, secushare https://secushare.org/ -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures