Purism – Purism https://puri.sm/ High-quality computers that protect your freedom and privacy Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:29:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.28 https://puri.sm/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-purism-logo-rectangle-1-32x32.png Purism – Purism https://puri.sm/ 32 32 Dialing Back to Move Forward: Why the Landline Revival Signals a Future for Privacy https://puri.sm/posts/dialing-back-to-move-forward-why-the-landline-revival-signals-a-future-for-privacy/ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:55:47 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84618 On September 30, 2025, The Washington Post reported a quiet trend in Washington, D.C.: the return of landline phones among officials and journalists seeking refuge from the omnipresent surveillance of smartphones. In a recent story, NBC News spotlighted parents in Maine and Seattle who are reviving landlines for their children—creating “landline pods” so kids can connect without the addictive pull of screens or the predatory reach of social media platforms.

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]]> Who Owns Your Digital Self? https://puri.sm/posts/who-owns-your-digital-self/ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:52:09 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84608 The lawsuits now circling Apple are not just about stolen phones. They are about stolen selves—stolen data, stolen memories, stolen identities.

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]]> Quantum Safe Private Communications: Building the Future Before the Threat Arrives https://puri.sm/posts/quantum-safe-private-communications-building-the-future-before-the-threat-arrives/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 20:56:28 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84586 Secure mobility is not just about encryption — it’s about sovereignty. The ability to own, control, and verify every layer of your communications stack is the difference between operational assurance and strategic vulnerability.

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]]> Safety Without Surveillance: Designing Digital Sovereignty for All Ages https://puri.sm/posts/safety-without-surveillance-designing-digital-sovereignty-for-all-ages/ Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:41:11 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84574 In September, a single misconfiguration in Life360’s Android API turned a “family safety” app into a map of human lives exposed. More than 442,000 users had their precise GPS trails, names, and phone numbers dumped online by a threat actor known as Emo.

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]]> Secret Service Telecom Bust Exposes Cellular Weaknesses https://puri.sm/posts/secret-service-telecom-bust-exposes-cellular-weaknesses/ Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:31:07 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84546 The Secret Service’s disruption of a massive SIM-server network near the U.N. is proof that the threats to our communications are real, organized, and capable of overwhelming public safety systems.

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]]> Purism Approach vs. Google Model https://puri.sm/posts/purism-approach-vs-google-model/ Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:24:00 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84519 The Justice Department and a coalition of states are pursuing antitrust action against Google, accusing it of running monopolistic ad-tech systems that exploit users and lock out competition. Regulators are weighing remedies that could force structural changes to Google’s ad empire.

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]]> Librem PQC Encryptor: Future‑Proofing Against Both SS7 and Quantum https://puri.sm/posts/librem-pqc-encryptor-future-proofing-against-both-ss7-and-quantum/ Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:07:44 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84444 Signaling System 7 (SS7) was designed in the 1970s to let telecom carriers route calls, deliver SMS, and enable roaming. It was never built with authentication or encryption in mind. Security wasn’t part of the plan.  The assumption was simple:  All carriers are trusted.

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]]> Shortwave App Now Available https://puri.sm/posts/shortwave-app-now-available/ Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:04:38 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84397 Shortwave is an internet radio player that provides access to a station database with over 50,000 stations.

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]]> Freedom by Design: Why Purism Rejects Big IT Status Quo https://puri.sm/posts/freedom-by-design-why-purism-rejects-big-it-status-quo/ Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:05:52 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84487 Three recent IT‑privacy headlines tell the same unsettling story: that consumer trust is being squandered

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]]> When “Efficiency” Becomes Exposure: How DOGE Put America’s Identity at Risk https://puri.sm/posts/when-efficiency-becomes-exposure-how-doge-put-americas-identity-at-risk/ Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:03:10 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84476 Every American should be alarmed.  It was recently reported that a whistleblower from inside the Social Security Administration, Chief Data Officer Charles Borges, has revealed that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) copied a live, full-fidelity version of the nation’s Social Security database onto an Amazon-hosted cloud environment that allegedly lacked independent security oversight. This affects any American who’s ever filled out a Social Security form,

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]]> Spotify “Panama” Leak Is a Wake-Up Call for Digital Privacy https://puri.sm/posts/spotify-panama-leak-is-a-wake-up-call-for-digital-privacy/ Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:00:10 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84360 The New York Times recently reported that a hacker using the pseudonym “Tim” scraped publicly available data from Spotify and published it on his own website. Using automated bots, “Tim” harvested user playlists — many of them tied to identifiable names, locations, and even personal notes in titles or descriptions.

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]]> When Technology Policy Defends Human Dignity https://puri.sm/posts/when-technology-policy-defends-human-dignity/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:36:39 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84366 In late August, Italy took a decisive step to protect women from one of the most insidious forms of online abuse: the non‑consensual sharing of intimate or misappropriated images. After years of complaints, activism, and public outrage, a notorious website — home to thousands of stolen photos of women, from ordinary citizens to public figures — was forced offline following a wave of legal and political pressure.

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]]> The NYPD’s $3B “Domain Awareness System” isn’t just a New York problem—it’s a warning for every American https://puri.sm/posts/the-nypds-3b-domain-awareness-system-isnt-just-a-new-york-problem-its-a-warning-for-every-american/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:48:28 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84454 In her September 15, 2025, New York Times opinion piece, Elizabeth Daniel Vasquez lays bare a reality too many Americans have ignored: the New York Police Department has quietly built one of the most expansive, integrated surveillance systems in the nation’s history.

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]]> Living in the Regulatory Future: Purism, the EU Data Act, and America’s Patchwork Privacy Laws https://puri.sm/posts/living-in-the-regulatory-future-purism-the-eu-data-act-and-americas-patchwork-privacy-laws/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:55:30 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84425 Recently, the EU Data Act was officially enacted — and with it, a new era of enforceable digital rights. Where the GDPR set the policy framework, the Data Act demands proof: verifiable, auditable systems that deliver true data portability, secure interoperability, and privacy‑by‑design across sectors.

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]]> PureOS Crimson: August 2025 – Alpha Released https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-august-2025-alpha-released/ Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:33:02 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84330 We have released alpha images for PureOS Crimson for all Librem devices and have closed the first milestone!

Thank you to all of our supporters and PureOS subscribers who have made this possible.

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]]> Blanket App Now Available https://puri.sm/posts/blanket-app-now-available/ Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:32:24 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84346 Blanket lets you improve focus and increase your productivity by listening to different ambient sounds.

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]]> Google Mishandling School Children’s Data https://puri.sm/posts/google-mishandling-school-childrens-data/ Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:31:21 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84364 When Google agreed to pay $30 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its unauthorized collection of children’s data on YouTube, it wasn’t a revelation—it was a confirmation. A confirmation that Google’s public posture of compliance often masks a deeper, more calculated strategy: delayed monetization through long-tail data mining.

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]]> Invisible Dependencies, Visible Damage: The Case for Supply Chain Hygiene https://puri.sm/posts/invisible-dependencies-visible-damage-the-case-for-supply-chain-hygiene/ Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:13:20 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84291 On September 8th, Check Point Research confirmed what many of us in the privacy and security trenches have been warning about for years: the weakest link in your security posture may not be your systems at all — it may be the invisible web of third-party integrations you’ve tacitly approved, often without full visibility into their downstream dependencies.

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]]> From Typhoon to Action: A Purism Playbook for Hardening Your Defenses https://puri.sm/posts/from-typhoon-to-action-a-purism-playbook-for-hardening-your-defenses/ Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:00:17 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84293 When the FBI, CISA, and NSA release joint advisories, it’s not theory — it’s reality. The latest warnings about Salt Typhoon and Volt Typhoon should be read as a weather alert: the storm isn’t “out there,” it’s already in progress. These campaigns target infrastructure, communications, and supply chains with patience and persistence.

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]]> Apple’s Latest iPhone: Sleeker Walls, Same Garden https://puri.sm/posts/apples-latest-iphone-sleeker-walls-same-garden/ Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:43:14 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84301 Yesterday, Apple unveiled the latest iPhone lineup adding an iPhone Air — described by them as their thinnest, lightest yet. The headlines were predictable fanfare while missing the larger points.

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]]> Mousai App Now Available https://puri.sm/posts/mousai-app-now-available/ Tue, 09 Sep 2025 14:01:03 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84077 Mousai is a simple application that can recognize songs similar to Shazam. Just click the listen button, and then wait a few seconds. It will magically return the title and artist of that song!

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]]> California’s New Privacy Rules Are a National Signal https://puri.sm/posts/californias-new-privacy-rules-are-a-national-signal/ Sun, 07 Sep 2025 19:21:41 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84134 California’s New Privacy Rules Are a National Signal The California Privacy Protection Agency’s latest regulations redraw the playing field. This is the first set of rules in the U.S. to require: Annual, independent cybersecurity audits for high-risk businesses Comprehensive risk assessments for key data processing activities Bias and privacy impact reviews for automated decision-making systems […]

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]]> The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning https://puri.sm/posts/the-quiet-revolution-gnu-linux-crosses-6-desktop-market-share-and-its-just-the-beginning/ Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:21:31 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84000 For decades, the phrase “Year of the Linux Desktop” has been tossed around like a tech industry punchline. But now, it’s no longer a meme—it’s a movement. According to the U.S. government’s own analytics, GNU/Linux has officially crossed the 6% threshold in desktop usage. That’s not hype. That’s hard data.

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]]> Google’s New Sideloading Restrictions: Why Purism Thinks Differently https://puri.sm/posts/googles-new-sideloading-restrictions-why-purism-thinks-differently/ Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:52:46 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84185 Google’s New Sideloading Restrictions: Why Purism Thinks Differently Google is introducing a new developer verification system claiming to increase security and combat malware (in the name of controlling users).  Google’s “security” push is a double-edged sword. It may help fight a certain type of malware. But it also reminds us all that Android’s identity is […]

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]]> PureOS Crimson Development Report: July 2025 https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-development-report-july-2025/ Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:18:53 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84155 Welcome back! In our last update, we mentioned a fix in pureos-meta for some missing essential system components.

This seemed trivial at the time - just add the missing components. However, when the fix went into review and we looked deeper, it turned out to be anything but trivial.

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]]> Introducing the Librem PQC Comms Server https://puri.sm/posts/introducing-the-librem-pqc-comms-server/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:44:55 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=83993 SF, CA, US – Purism is excited to announce its Librem PQC Comms Server, encrypting data-in-transit (DIT) with post-quantum cryptography (PQC) according to the NIST FIPS 203 standard. When bundled as a complete ecosystem with the Liberty Phone or other Purism Products will also address data-at-rest (DAR) encrypted with PQC.

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]]> A Privacy Shield in the Wake of AT&T Data Breaches https://puri.sm/posts/a-privacy-shield-in-the-wake-of-att-data-breaches/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:55:51 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84140 Purism AweSIM: A Privacy Shield in the Wake of AT&T Data Breaches AT&T was found liable to pay customers an estimated $177M to resolve multiple lawsuits stemming from two separate data breaches – March 30 and July 12, 2024. Both breaches exposed huge amounts of Personal Identifiable Information (PII) to the public. These two breaches […]

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]]> FTC Issues Letters to Big Tech: No Back Doors https://puri.sm/posts/ftc-issues-letters-to-big-tech-no-back-doors/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:07:47 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84107 FTC to Big Tech: No Back Doors — Purism Was Already There Protecting against Jurisdictional Arbitrage When the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) makes a determined move like this, it’s not a casual policy tweak — it’s a line drawn in permanent ink. On August 21, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson sent formal notices to over a […]

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]]> AI, Big Tech, and the Fight for Digital Freedom: Purism’s Role https://puri.sm/posts/ai-big-tech-and-the-fight-for-digital-freedom-purisms-role/ Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:45:12 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84006 We are living through a pivotal moment in the digital age—one where artificial intelligence and corporate consolidation are colliding with the fundamental rights of individuals. AI is no longer just a tool for innovation; it’s become the engine behind mass surveillance, behavioral profiling, and algorithmic manipulation. And the companies driving this transformation—Amazon, Apple, Meta, Google—are not just shaping technology. They’re shaping society.

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]]> Instagram’s Mapping Feature: A Privacy Wake-Up Call https://puri.sm/posts/instagrams-mapping-feature-a-privacy-wake-up-call/ Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:38:59 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84003 Instagram’s latest update introduces a mapping feature that quietly turns your location into a public breadcrumb trail. While it may seem like a harmless way to tag your favorite coffee shop or scenic overlook, the reality is more insidious: this feature keeps your location sharing always-on by default. That means every time you post, you’re potentially broadcasting your whereabouts—not just to friends, but to advertisers, data brokers, and anyone else watching. It’s a textbook example of how convenience is weaponized against privacy.

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