Security – Purism

Dialing Back to Move Forward: Why the Landline Revival Signals a Future for Privacy

Purism — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:55:47 +0000

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?

Purism — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:52:09 +0000

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

Purism — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 20:56:28 +0000

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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Librem PQC Encryptor: Future‑Proofing Against Both SS7 and Quantum

Purism — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:07:44 +0000

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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Freedom by Design: Why Purism Rejects Big IT Status Quo

Purism — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:05:52 +0000

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

Purism — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:03:10 +0000

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

Purism — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:00:10 +0000

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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PureOS Crimson: August 2025 – Alpha Released

Purism — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:33:02 +0000

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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Google Mishandling School Children’s Data

Purism — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:31:21 +0000

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

Purism — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:13:20 +0000

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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Apple’s Latest iPhone: Sleeker Walls, Same Garden

Purism — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:43:14 +0000

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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Closing the App Gap; Focus and Momentum

Todd Weaver — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:51:50 +0000

Purism set extremely ambitious goals starting with its founding as a Social Purpose Company—putting protecting digital rights above profit, putting individual freedom above controlling users, inventing and innovating GNU/Linux for mobile, creating the first truly convergent OS (PureOS), to shipping the first phone with Made in USA Electronics. The constant throughout the entire company is a belief that people should be in control of their technology. This belief is also extremely valuable to organizations and agencies who need the security provided by controlling their devices fully.

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California’s New Privacy Rules Are a National Signal

Purism — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 19:21:41 +0000

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

Purism — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:21:31 +0000

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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Introducing the Librem PQC Comms Server

Purism — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:44:55 +0000

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

Purism — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:55:51 +0000

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

Purism — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:07:47 +0000

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

Purism — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:45:12 +0000

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

Purism — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:38:59 +0000

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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Introducing the Librem PQC Encryptor

Purism — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 22:12:45 +0000

SF, CA, US – Purism is excited to announce its Librem PQC Encryptor, encrypting data-in-transit with post-quantum cryptography (PQC) according to the NIST FIPS 203 standard.

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Ethics over Exploits – Use PureOS over Android/iOS

Purism — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:07:12 +0000

As Purism has been saying for years, the battleground for digital privacy has shifted squarely into our pockets in the form of smartphones. Mobile devices are now (more than ever) the prime targets for sophisticated cyber threats, having a duopoly with centralized control from two vendors; Apple and Google; the problem gets exacerbated.

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AI Puts Your Personal Privacy at Risk

Purism — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:44:20 +0000

The proliferation of AI models across consumer platforms has ushered in a new era of convenience—but it’s also accelerated the erosion of personal privacy.
Large language models (LLMs) are trained on staggering volumes of data, including publicly available content and, in some cases, personally identifiable information (PII). That means sensitive metadata—everything from search history and location trails to voice recordings and biometric markers—can be folded into systems that behave like omniscient assistants, but without full user transparency or consent. In the monolithic culture of big tech, “innovation” often comes at the cost of ethical boundaries.

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SharePoint Zero-Day Breach Hits Hundreds of Companies, Affecting Thousands of Users — Why PureOS and Linux Servers Are a Safer Alternative

Purism — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:10:31 +0000

The recent Microsoft SharePoint breach is yet another stark reminder of the systemic vulnerabilities embedded in our overreliance on monolithic tech ecosystems. When you centralize critical infrastructure—especially within sprawling platforms like SharePoint—you create a single, oversized attack surface that adversaries can exploit with devastating precision. This wasn’t just a technical failure; it was a cultural one.

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PureOS Crimson Development Report: June 2025

Purism — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 19:13:29 +0000

That one task Welcome back! As we enter the second half of 2025, we’re wrapping up the last few tasks to release the PureOS Crimson alpha for all Librem devices. In our last post, we mentioned that there was a key task remaining for gnome-control-center, the GNOME Settings application. In that post, we referred to […]

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Purism CEO Todd Weaver: U.S.-Made Liberty Phone Proves Domestic Tech Manufacturing Is Possible—and Competitive

Purism — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:35:46 +0000

In a recent Bloomberg Technology interview, Todd Weaver, CEO of Purism, challenged the widespread belief that building smartphones in the U.S. is economically unfeasible. Purism’s Liberty Phone—manufactured with made-in-USA electronics—stands as a working proof of concept.

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Google to Pay Texas $1.4 Billion to End Privacy Cases

Purism — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 20:09:27 +0000

Google’s $1.375 billion settlement with Texas is a wake-up call for digital privacy (Bloomberg Law).

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Trump T1 Phone Android OS vs. PureOS

Rex M. Lee — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:59:36 +0000

Is the Trump T1 Phone Secure, Private, and Truly Made in America? The newly launched Trump T1 Phone is being marketed as a secure, privacy-respecting smartphone made in America. But while the hardware may be assembled in the U.S., the operating system—Android 15—raises significant concerns for anyone who values digital privacy, sovereignty, and freedom from surveillance capitalism.

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The 2025 Most Secure Phone in The World Reviews Are In: Efani, Analytics Insight, Navi, and Cashify

Purism — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:16:22 +0000

Purism’s Librem 5 and Liberty Phones Named the Most Secure Smartphones in the World Top cybersecurity and tech publications agree—Purism leads the industry in mobile security for 2025.

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CNN Report: Purism is the Only Known U.S. Phone Manufacturer

Purism — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:06:27 +0000

In a recent CNN report, skepticism surrounds the Trump Organization’s claim that its new “T1” smartphone is “Made in the USA.” Experts, including Todd Weaver, CEO of Purism, challenged the claim, citing striking similarities between the T1 and a low-cost Chinese phone, the Revvl 7 Pro 5G, made by Wingtech, a Chinese manufacturer.

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PureOS Crimson Development Report: May 2025

Purism — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:26:07 +0000

Welcome back! If you've been following our PureOS Crimson milestones, you'll see that the few remaining tasks relate to providing ready-to-flash images for the Librem 5.

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