most secure pc – 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 most secure pc – Purism https://puri.sm/ 32 32 Purism’s Guide to Security- Internet & Tech Decentralization https://puri.sm/posts/purisms-guide-to-security-internet-tech-decentralization/ Tue, 25 Jul 2023 12:11:22 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=80037 During the proliferation of the internet in the 1990s, the internet was decentralized enabling free trade and commerce on an equal basis where content creators were free to publish anything at will. Although the internet today is still theoretically decentralized, we cannot discount the fact that the internet, artificial intelligence (AI), and connected technology have […]

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]]> PureOS 10.3 Power Optimization https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-10-3-power-optimization/ Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:51:02 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=79637 With PureOS 10.3, power saving and new goodies is the name of the game. Most companies abandon hardware soon after launch, but we have a different approach with the Librem 5.  With every upgrade to PureOS we push on the Librem 5, the more the device can do and the more efficient it gets. One […]

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]]> Bootstrapping Trust with Anti-Interdiction https://puri.sm/posts/bootstrapping-trust-with-anti-interdiction/ Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:30:57 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=77620 How do you bootstrap trust when you have to order a trusted computer from an untrusted one? One way is with our anti-interdiction services and in this article I will talk through how that works. There are many different reasons why customers add our anti-interdiction services to their phone or laptop orders. When you sign […]

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]]> Introducing PureBoot Restricted Boot https://puri.sm/posts/introducing-pureboot-restricted-boot/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 22:54:10 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=76293 We have been busy on the PureBoot front! Recently we announced “PureBoot Basic Mode” which is a low-security option for PureBoot that disables tamper detection, but leaves you with the robust PureBoot recovery console for debugging boot issues. To balance our last “low security” feature, our most recent PureBoot release, version 23, offers a new […]

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]]> Year-End Savings Start Now with $200 off on Librem 14 Laptop https://puri.sm/posts/year-end-savings-start-now-with-200-off-on-librem-14-laptop/ Tue, 01 Nov 2022 17:07:41 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=76250   It is already the year end, and a new year will be knocking at our doors very soon! We’ve seen an incredible response to Librem 14 laptops this year, so we decided to offer a great new promotion, just in time for the holiday season ahead. Use the coupon L14SALE22 when you check out to […]

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]]> Introducing PureBoot Basic https://puri.sm/posts/introducing-pureboot-basic/ Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:02:12 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=75803 PureBoot is our high-security, tamper-detecting boot firmware that we offer as an alternative to our default coreboot firmware on hardware like our Librem 14 and Librem Mini. The combination of PureBoot, our anti-interdiction services, and the option of Qubes as the pre-installed OS makes hardware like the Librem 14 among the most secure computers you […]

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]]> How to Enable Hotspot and Tethering in PureOS on Your Librem 5 https://puri.sm/posts/how-to-enable-hot-spot-and-tethering-in-pureos-on-your-librem-5/ Thu, 23 Jun 2022 21:13:49 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=75303 When you need to connect a Wi-Fi device to the internet and your phone has a good 4G signal, why not set up secure data sharing? With PureOS on the Librem 5 phone, setting up a hotspot is simple. Head into Wi-Fi settings and enable Hotspot.  Setting up a Hotspot Settings → Wi-Fi → Top Right Menu → […]

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]]> Qubes 4.1 Now Available for Pre-Install https://puri.sm/posts/qubes-4-1-now-available-for-pre-install/ Thu, 26 May 2022 15:39:02 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=75098 I’m convinced that the Librem 14 is the best laptop for Qubes and our customers seem to agree. Originally, customers who selected Qubes with their order would have to install it themselves with a USB thumb drive we added to the order. More recently we started offering Qubes as a pre-installed option, all set up […]

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]]> Security Self-Sufficiency https://puri.sm/posts/security-self-sufficiency/ Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:29:09 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=74446 “Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.” — Andrew Carnegie Many people take Carnegie’s advice to heart when it comes to security. They anchor almost all of their security with a single vendor, and the vendor is more than happy to oblige. Most infosec vendors seem incapable of designing security […]

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]]> High Security Shipping: Anti-interdiction in 2021 https://puri.sm/posts/high-security-shipping-anti-interdiction-in-2021/ Mon, 03 Jan 2022 21:31:47 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73529 We offer a lot of unique, high-security features at Purism (I discuss the most secure options for the Librem 14 in this post). One of the most interesting things we offer is our anti-interdiction service, an add-on service that we custom-tailor for each customer to add multiple levels of tamper detection to an order. With […]

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]]> My Recommendations for the Most Secure Librem 14 Configuration https://puri.sm/posts/my-recommendations-for-the-most-secure-librem-14-configuration/ Thu, 09 Dec 2021 20:39:50 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73364 The Librem 14 is our most secure laptop to date. We aim to make the Librem 14 as secure as possible out of the box for the widest range of customers while also taking ease-of-use and overall convenience into account. We also avoid security measures that take control away from you and give it to […]

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]]> New PureBoot Feature: Scanning Root for Tampering https://puri.sm/posts/new-pureboot-feature-scanning-root-for-tampering/ Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:53:17 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73014 With the latest PureBoot R19 pre-release we have added a number of new changes including improved GUI workflows and new security features and published a ROM image so the wider community can test it before it turns into the next stable release. To test it, existing PureBoot users can download the R19-pre1 .rom file that […]

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]]> Qubes Now A Preinstall Option for Librem 14 and Mini https://puri.sm/posts/qubes-now-a-preinstall-option-for-librem-14-and-mini/ Tue, 07 Sep 2021 17:17:48 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=72793 While we default to our own PureOS on our hardware, we have also supported the high-security QubesOS on Purism hardware ever since the Librem 13 v1 became the first hardware officially supported by the Qubes project. Since then we have continued to treat Qubes as a first-class citizen and ensured that it works well on […]

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]]> Apple Users Got Owned https://puri.sm/posts/apple-users-got-owned/ Fri, 13 Nov 2020 22:14:09 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69911 You’ll often hear hackers say that they “owned” (or sometimes “pwned”) a computer. They don’t mean that they have the computer in their physical possession, what they mean is that they have compromised the computer and have such deep remote control that they can do whatever they want to it. When hackers own a computer […]

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]]> Announcing the Librem Mini V2 https://puri.sm/posts/announcing-the-librem-mini-v2/ Mon, 02 Nov 2020 16:59:09 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69781 The Librem Mini campaign was a big success and now we are excited to announce an upgrade to the Librem Mini product line.

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]]> Why the GRUB2 Secure Boot Flaw Doesn’t Affect Purism Computers https://puri.sm/posts/why-the-grub2-secure-boot-flaw-doesnt-affect-purism-computers/ Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:03:11 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=68918 Whenever a new security issue gets announced one of the first questions we all ask ourselves is: am I vulnerable? We have started to get questions from our customers after the announcement of a series of major security bugs in GRUB2 so I felt that it was appropriate to write up a quick post to […]

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]]> Librem Mini Shipping with Active Cooling https://puri.sm/posts/librem-mini-shipping-with-active-cooling/ Fri, 03 Jul 2020 17:44:07 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=68625 There’s nothing like making a public announcement to ensure that a situation will change. That’s certainly been true in the case of our Librem Mini. Just over a week ago we announced the Librem Mini was ready to ship and highlighted one issue we intended to solve with a future software update: If you ordered […]

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]]> Librem Mini is Shipping https://puri.sm/posts/librem-mini-is-shipping/ Tue, 23 Jun 2020 16:25:14 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=68500 The Librem Mini is Shipping! We were excited to see so much interest from the community in our Librem Mini pre-order campaign and we hit our initial goals within only three weeks. Since then we’ve been testing hardware and porting coreboot over and now we are ready to start shipping Librem Mini pre-orders to customers. […]

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]]> Librem Mini Update: Hardware is Here, Finishing Coreboot https://puri.sm/posts/librem-mini-update-hardware-is-here-finishing-coreboot/ Mon, 08 Jun 2020 18:50:11 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=68465 In our last Librem Mini Update we mentioned that the hardware should be arriving around the end of May and we’re happy to announce that our estimates were mostly on track: we received the first Librem Mini batch a bit over a week ago! In parallel we have been working hard to port coreboot to […]

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