Strategic Infrastructure Threats and Purism’s Response

The recent 60 Minutes segment on Chinese hacks to America’s critical infrastructure was picked up by various new channels including CBS News, was not ‘new’ news. It was a very powerful remainder that highlighted some of the root causes of our national cyber weaknesses.

Retired General Tim Haugh, former leader of both the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, delivered a stark assessment: Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors are no longer confined to espionage. They are actively embedding themselves within U.S. civilian infrastructure—including water treatment facilities, power grids, and transportation systems—strategically positioning latent digital threats that could be activated during a geopolitical conflict.

The FBI has confirmed breaches in towns, such as, Littleton, Massachusetts, and others. These incursions are not about data theft—they are rehearsals for sabotage. The vulnerability lies not only in malicious actors but in the architecture itself: closed, proprietary systems with opaque code and unverifiable supply chains. These systems are inherently brittle and invite compromise.

Purism’s Architecture of Trust

Purism has long maintained that security must be foundational—not retrofitted. Our approach is built on transparency, auditability, and user sovereignty.

Open Source Software
Proprietary firewalls and routers operate as black boxes, hiding vulnerabilities for years. Purism’s Librem laptops and phones run on Free and Open Source Software—auditable by anyone, verifiable by design.
Supply Chain Transparency
Trust begins with control. Purism eliminates binary blobs, enforces transparent sourcing, and builds devices that users can inspect and verify. This is not marketing—it’s operational necessity in a hostile threat landscape.
Hardware-Enforced Sovereignty
Remote access vulnerabilities can compromise critical infrastructure. Purism enforces security at the hardware layer. Librem 5 smartphones include hardware kill switches. Librem laptops offer physical control over cameras, microphones, and radios. Our PQC Encryptor delivers post-quantum resilience for secure communications.

Consent, Defaults, and the Illusion of Control

Consumer technology often disguises adversarial design behind the illusion of choice. Simplified consent mechanisms. That include the ubiquitous “Accept All” button, and then, condense complex and invasive data practices into a single, frictionless click. With Apple’s new AI defaults, personal information quietly shifts from private property to training material for AI, becoming forage for machine learning pipelines.

Purism rejects this paradigm. Our defaults prioritize privacy, sovereignty, and user control. We do not monetize user behavior or obscure consent behind deceptive interfaces.

Strategic Call to Action

The vulnerabilities exposed in national infrastructure mirror those in everyday consumer devices. Proprietary phones, closed laptops, and “smart” devices with opaque supply chains are latent risks.

The solution is a strategic choice. Choose systems built on verifiable code, transparent sourcing, and hardware-enforced sovereignty. Choose Purism.

Librem 5 Smartphone: Hardware kill switches, open source, privacy-first defaults.
Librem Laptops: Auditable firmware, physical control, secure architecture.
PQC Encryptor: Post-quantum secure communications, built for resilience.

Final Perspective

The adversary to this situation is already embedded in Purism’s products. The question is whether we continue to rely on brittle, opaque systems—or reclaim control at the root.

Purism offers more than devices. We deliver an architecture of trust in an age of digital sabotage.

Deploy Librem. Activate PQC Encryptor. Reclaim sovereignty before the next breach reaches your doorstep.

Purism Products and Availability Chart

Model	Status	Lead Time
Librem Key (Made in USA)	In Stock ($59+)	10 business days	Learn More Buy Now
Liberty Phone (Made in USA Electronics)	In Stock ($1,999+) 4GB/128GB	10 business days	Learn More Buy Now
Librem 5	In Stock ($799+) 3GB/32GB	10 business days	Learn More Buy Now
Librem 11	In Stock ($999+) 8GB/1TB	10 business days	Learn More Buy Now
Librem 14	Out of stock	New Version in Development	Coming Soon
Librem Mini	Out of stock	New Version in Development	Coming Soon
Librem Server	In Stock ($2,999+)	45 business days	Learn More Buy Now
Librem PQC Encryptor	Available Now, contact sales@puri.sm	90 business days	Learn More Contact Us
Librem PQC Comms Server	Available Now, contact sales@puri.sm	90 business days	Learn More Contact Us