Librem One – 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 Librem One – Purism https://puri.sm/ 32 32 Why Librem Tunnel is Leaving iOS https://puri.sm/posts/why-librem-tunnel-is-leaving-ios/ Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:08:47 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=71284 Recently we’ve been forced to remove Librem Tunnel from iOS due to their unfair policies and in this post we’ll explain why.

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]]> Technology as it Should Be https://puri.sm/posts/technology-as-it-should-be/ Wed, 25 Nov 2020 17:57:51 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=70159 In Imagine a world without apps Shira Ovide asks “a wild question: What if we played games, shopped, watched Netflix and read news on our smartphones — without using apps? Our smartphones, like our computers, would instead mostly be gateways to go online through a web browser.” This question can be extrapolated into a larger […]

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]]> Announcing Librem AweSIM: A Privacy-focused Cellular Service for the Librem 5 https://puri.sm/posts/announcing-librem-awesim-a-privacy-focused-cellular-service-for-the-librem-5/ Thu, 01 Oct 2020 08:01:26 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69518 Today we are pleased to announce Librem AweSIM: a prepaid, unlimited cellular service designed to work literally out of the box with the Librem 5. Sign up for Librem AweSIM and provide us with your preferred area code, and when your Librem 5 is ready to ship, we will register a new number to your […]

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]]> 2019 Year in Review: Librem One https://puri.sm/posts/2019-year-in-review-librem-one/ Tue, 24 Dec 2019 11:20:17 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=66842 Accomplishments We launched Librem One, with open protocols that any app can use. For convenience we released branded apps on both Android and iOS. Librem Tunnel got mentioned as “App of the month”. We quickly dealt with and reported on security issues as they arose. We continue to refine our sign-up process and cross-platform support. […]

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]]> What a No-Carrier Phone Could Look Like https://puri.sm/posts/what-a-no-carrier-phone-could-look-like/ Thu, 01 Aug 2019 13:00:03 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=63949 Now that we are in the home stretch for the Librem 5 launch, it’s a good time to start discussing some visions for the future. While the Librem 5 can operate as a traditional cellular phone today, in this post we are going to discuss its potential as a “no-carrier phone.” The term “no-carrier phone” […]

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]]> Control, Freedom and Harm https://puri.sm/posts/control-freedom-and-harm/ Tue, 04 Jun 2019 15:34:09 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=63780 Control is the best measurement of both freedom and harm. If freedom can be summarized as not being under the control of another, harm can be summarized as being under the control of another. The darker side of “control vs. freedom” or “control + harm” casts a shadow on every facet of technology—and it is […]

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]]> Avoiding Big Tech to Protect Your Privacy https://puri.sm/posts/avoiding-big-tech-to-protect-your-privacy/ Wed, 22 May 2019 14:20:39 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=63759 In a recent opinion piece by Jennifer Senior, titled If We Care So Much About What Google Knows, Why Do We Keep Telling it Everything?, she properly describes the privacy paradox as what happens when a person consistently acts in ways that are contradictory to the privacy values professed by that same person. The reasons […]

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