most secure computer – 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 computer – Purism https://puri.sm/ 32 32 Hidden Operating Systems in Chips vs. Secure, Auditable OSes: A Cybersecurity Comparison https://puri.sm/posts/hidden-operating-systems-in-chips-vs-secure-auditable-oses-a-cybersecurity-comparison/ Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:18:36 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=83347 The Threat Beneath: The Invisible Operating Systems Inside Your Devices Beneath the surface of nearly every modern computer lies a hidden threat—one most users never see or control. Today’s Intel and AMD processors ship with embedded subsystems like the Intel Management Engine (ME) and AMD’s Platform Security Processor (PSP)—proprietary, low-level firmware environments that operate outside and below your main operating system.

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]]> How Big Tech Exploits Apps to Circumvent Privacy Laws & a Solution from Purism https://puri.sm/posts/how-big-tech-exploits-apps-to-circumvent-privacy-laws-a-solution-from-purism/ Thu, 22 May 2025 15:51:14 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=83303 Despite the promises of robust privacy laws like Europe’s GDPR and California’s CCPA/CPRA, Big Tech continues to push the envelope when it comes to data collection. This is especially the case with regard to mobile applications.

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]]> Intel AX200 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Shipping for New Orders https://puri.sm/posts/intel-ax200-wi-fi-bluetooth-shipping-for-new-orders/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 13:00:41 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=80700 New orders of Librem 14 and Librem Mini v2 are now shipping with Intel AX200 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards, replacing the Qualcomm Atheros AR9xxx series. Like the Librem 11‘s integrated AX201, the device firmware is provided by the PureBoot Firmware Blob Jail. We made this decision with care and to promote customer control over their […]

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]]> Android’s Monolithic and Bloated Upgrades vs Purism’s Rolling Upgrades https://puri.sm/posts/androids-monolithic-and-bloated-upgrades-vs-purisms-rolling-upgrades/ Mon, 09 Oct 2023 12:11:03 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=80569 Fundamentally, all our Purism devices running PureOS receive regular updates to apps and the core OS the same way. Each component of PureOS can be upgraded individually at any time. In contrast, Android has a read-only root filesystem for day-to-day use. As a consequence, Android phones only see a few upgrades and a limited number […]

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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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]]> Introducing the Librem Server v2 https://puri.sm/posts/introducing-the-librem-server-v2/ Tue, 30 May 2023 10:56:10 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=79503 Introducing the Librem Server v2 The new Librem Server features a 9th generation Intel Core i7 processor with 8 Cores and 12MB of cache. It can get up to 128GB of DDR4 RAM. It also features 6 USB 3.2 ports, a slim optical disk drive, 2 internal drive bays, and 4 “hot-swap” 3.5 SATA 3.0 […]

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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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]]> 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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]]> Special Offer on PureBoot Bundle with Anti-Interdiction https://puri.sm/posts/special-offer-on-librem14-aibundle/ Tue, 01 Mar 2022 20:24:33 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=74253   Freedom is essential to security. Purism’s commitment to security and user freedom means we can deliver products and services Big Tech players can’t. We also think security should be convenient and hardware and software should be secure by default. Our approach results in a completely unique combination of security solutions. Security must be anchored in […]

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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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]]> Why The Librem 14 with QubesOS Exceeded My Expectations https://puri.sm/posts/why-the-librem-14-with-qubesos-exceeded-my-expectations/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 21:42:14 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73331 If you face extreme threats, or even if you are just looking for a high-security operating system for peace of mind, it’s hard to beat QubesOS. While it’s not as easy to use as our default PureOS, it offers a lot of advanced security features that, when combined with the advanced hardware and firmware security […]

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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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]]> Defending Against Spyware Like Pegasus https://puri.sm/posts/defending-against-spyware-like-pegasus/ Wed, 21 Jul 2021 13:57:11 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=72531 This has been a busy week for security news, but perhaps the most significant security and privacy story to break this week (if not this year), is about how NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware has been used by a number of governments to infect and spy on journalists and activists and even heads of state by […]

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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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]]> 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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]]> Apple Has No Tolerance For Webcam Covers https://puri.sm/posts/apple-has-no-tolerance-for-webcam-covers/ Tue, 21 Jul 2020 17:30:31 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=68800 We sell laptops and phones with hardware kill switches at Purism, so we clearly have strong opinions about webcam security. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that we raised an eyebrow when Apple posted an update to their support page titled “Don’t close your MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro with a cover over the […]

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]]> Librem 14 Launch FAQ https://puri.sm/posts/librem-14-launch-faq/ Tue, 07 Jul 2020 09:45:36 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=68642 There has been a lot of excitement ever since we announced the Librem 14 last week. There has also been quite a few questions. In this post we’ll go through some of the most Frequently Asked Questions for those of you still deciding whether to pre-order and take advantage of our discount: Q: When will […]

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]]> Anti-interdiction Update: Six Month Retrospective https://puri.sm/posts/anti-interdiction-update-six-month-retrospective/ Wed, 20 May 2020 19:33:39 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=68359 It was only six months ago that we formalized our anti-interdiction services so instead of being a “hidden menu item” that you had to ask about, it was available as a drop-down along with the PureBoot Bundle. While some vendors offer tamper evident tape to their boxes, to my knowledge we are the only hardware […]

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