What mystery code, or binary blobs remain with Purism laptops? Is there any concern with them?
Security is a game of depth, and Purism goes deeper than any manufacturer by avoiding blobs or mystery code in the top 4 layers of a computer: applications, operating system, kernel, and bootloader.
At the firmware level, we utilize Coreboot instead of a proprietary BIOS/UEFI, a huge advancement for current high-end laptops. Within coreboot there are still some binaries though.
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We are “as close to free software foundations respects your freedom as possible with current Intel CPUs” but are spending real money to advance that toward complete binary freedom.
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