Press Room

Press releases & partnerships 

Here are some recent formal announcements intended for dissemination through the press and/or our partners:

• Purism launches Librem Key, the first and only security key to offer tamper evident protection to laptop users (2018-09-20)
• Librem 5, the world’s first ethical, user-controlled smartphone, makes steady progress for initial shipping beginning April 2019 (2018-09-04)
• Purism’s Security and Privacy Focused Librem 5 Smartphone Makes Major Strides in Manufacturing and Development (2018-06-06)
• Purism and Nitrokey Partner to Build Librem Key for Purism’s Librem Laptops (2018-05-17)
• Purism and UBports officially collaborate to offer Ubuntu Touch on Librem 5 (2018-04-24)
• Librem laptop orders now shipping within a week (2018-03-28)
• Purism Partners with Cryptography Pioneer Werner Koch to Create a New Encrypted Communication Standard for Security-Focused Devices (2018-03-08)
• Purism Integrates Trammel Hudson’s Heads security firmware with Trusted Platform Module, giving full control and digital privacy to laptop users (2018-02-27)
• FSF adds PureOS to list of endorsed GNU/Linux distributions (2017-12-21)
• Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Management Engine (2017-10-19)
• Purism Partners with Nextcloud to Build and Include End-to-End Encrypted Storage Products and Services (2017-10-18)
• Purism Collaborates with Cryptocurrency Monero to Enable Mobile Payments (2017-10-13)
• Purism Meets Its $1.5 Million Goal for Security Focused Librem 5 Smartphone One Week After Surging Past the 50% Mark (2017-10-09)
• Librem 5 Campaign Surges Past One Million Dollars (2017-10-04)
• Librem 5 Surges Past 50 Percent of its $1.5 Million Funding Goal To Deliver Encrypted, Privacy Smartphone That Won’t Track Users (2017-10-02)
• GNOME Foundation Partners with Purism to Support Its Efforts to Build the Librem 5 Smartphone (2017-09-19)
• Purism and KDE to Work Together on World’s First Truly Free Smartphone (2017-09-14)
• Purism Unveils Plans to Build Librem 5, the World’s First Encrypted, Open Smartphone Ecosystem Giving Users Complete Device Control (2017-08-24)
• Meet the development team at the 2017 Debian Conference (2017-07-27)
• Celebrate GNOME’s 20th anniversary with us at GUADEC 2017 (2017-07-11)
• Wannacry, Petya, NotPetya, Vault 7, Dark Matter, Show Numerous Key Flaws in Popular Devices (2017-07-05)
• A shipping update for Qubes-related orders (2017-07-04)
• Purism’s Security Focused Librem Laptops Go Mainstream as General Availability Begins (2017-06-23)
• Purism now a Social Purpose Corporation — What this means for you and us (2017-05-06)
• Security Researcher Trammell Hudson and Device Maker Purism Join Forces to Set a New Standard for Security-Focused Laptops (2017-04-12)
• Meet us at LibrePlanet 2017 from March 24th to March 26th (2017-02-23)
• Nicole Færber joins the Purism Advisory Board (2016-10-04)
• Purism announces the creation of its Advisory Board (2016-08-30)
• Purism Partners with Qubes, Security-Focused Hardware and Software Together (2015-12-08)
• Purism Ships Librem 13, First Privacy-respecting Notebook Computer (2015-10-15)
• Purism Librem Privacy-Respecting Computers Raise $797,000 to Date, Now Among Top 3 Crowdfunded PCs in History (2015-09-24)
• Purism Unveils the First Computer Built to Respect and Protect Digital Privacy (2015-06-18)
• Pioneering CPU Efforts to Liberate Laptop Hardware (2014-12-18)

If you would like to be notified in advance of some topics of interest to you, feel free to contact pr@puri.sm to let us know.

Complementary announcements 

While the corporate news items below are not formal press releases (and often fairly technical in nature), we consider they might be of interest to members of the press who wish to dig further.

• Apple is right about privacy, but wrong about freedom (2018-10-25)
• Introducing the Librem Key (2018-09-20)
• Why Freedom is Essential to Security and Privacy (2018-07-05)
• What is PureOS and how is it built? (2018-06-15)
• Last Call for Librem 5 Dev Kit: order yours before June 1st 2018 (2018-05-21)
• Librem adds tamper-evident features, now most secure laptop under full customer control (2018-02-27)
• New Inventory with TPM by Default, Free International Shipping (2018-02-22)
• Dark Caracal: State-Sponsored Spyware for Rent (2018-01-23)
• Meltdown, Spectre and the Future of Secure Hardware (2018-01-05)
• Measuring the Intel Management Engine to Create a More Secure Computer (2018-01-03)
• Happy New Year! Purism Goals for 2018 (2018-01-03)
• Trusted Platform Module now available as an add-on for Librem laptops (2017-11-15)
• Deep dive into Intel Management Engine disablement (2017-10-19)
• GNOME & KDE: The Purism Librem 5 phone is building a shared platform, not walled gardens (2017-09-15)
• Of Laptops and Phones (2017-08-27)
• Guest Post: Why I Bought a Librem Laptop for my Daughter (2017-08-06)
• Purism Warrant Canary Updated July 1st 2017 (2017-07-01)
• A fleet of coreboot laptops assembles (2017-05-25)
• Reverse-engineering the Intel Management Engine’s ROMP module (2017-05-10)
• How Purism Avoids Critical Intel Security Exploit (2017-05-08)
• How Purism avoids Vault 7 leaked threats “Dark Matter” (2017-04-25)
• Spring 2017 product design update and operations report (2017-04-19)
• Purism Warrant Canary Updated April 1st 2017 (2017-04-01)
• Yet Another EFI/UEFI Exploit, this one Utilizing NVRAM and Persistent Storage (2017-03-27)
• Proving the Known, EFI/UEFI Exploited for BIOS Level Attacks (2017-03-24)
• Releasing the beta of PureOS 3 (2017-03-23)
• What the CIA Vault 7 Documents Mean (2017-03-15)
• New Librem 13 version to be manufactured & shipped through Spring 2017 (2017-02-15)
• Purism Warrant Canary Updated January 1st 2017 (2017-01-01)
• Growing to Ship from Inventory in 2017 (2016-12-15)
• Update from the trenches – operations, research and development for Q4 2016 (2016-12-06)
• A better-organized website (2016-11-15)
• Purism Warrant Canary Updated October 1st 2016 (2016-10-01)
• Purism’s Zlatan Todorić is Officially a Debian Developer (2016-08-27)
• Purism CEO Todd Weaver interviewed on The New Screensavers episode #65 (2016-08-26)
• Meet up at Defcon & Todd joins Leo on The Twit Network (2016-08-06)
• Purism launches its own online store (2016-08-04)
• Purism Warrant Canary Updated April 1st 2016 (2016-04-01)
• Purism Hits First Price Break Tier for Librem 13 (2016-02-11)
• Purism Adds Support Forum to its Website (2015-12-31)
• Purism Warrant Canary Updated January 1st 2016 (2015-12-31)
• Pepcom Reveals (2015-06-16)

To discover more news items, related to our philosophy, product design, manufacturing and logistics, visit the general news section. There you can also discover our most frequently used tags and categories should you be interested in one topic in particular.

Additional information

Make sure to check out our corporate overview page and our “Why Purism?” section. See also the documents below.

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