[Arm-netbook] OT: Librem 5?

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Bill Kontos <vkontogpls at gmail.com> wrote:

> nothing in return" my purchase decision will not change. So far all
> that they lied about was the timeframe at which they would ship the
> features,

 nooo, they lied - in a deceptive way - about the consequences of that
quotes tiny little bit right at the beginning of the boot process
quotes.

 they made it look like, because everything else was libre, there was
really absolutely no harm done by having the ME firmware, you really
had nothing to be concerned about, you could buy one of their machines
and have a totally secure system.

 we know this to be absolute horseshit in an extremely significant way
libreboot.org/faq/#intelme

 now, it *just so happens* that someone recently discovered that the
NSA has clearly had their fingers into intel processors... because
they requested a DISABLE function of the ME back-door co-processor.

 without such a disable function there would be absolutely no way that
the NSA could authorise Intel processors for use either on their own
premises or for any government usage.... because the exact same
feature they demanded could be used to spy ON THEM.

 fucking ironic.

 now.

  is ANY of this mentioned on purism's main sales web page?

 if the answer is yes, i apologise deeply.

 l.