Purism Meets Its $1.5 Million Goal for Security Focused Librem 5 Smartphone

Purism has reachedits crowdfunding goal to create the Librem 5, an encrypted, opensmartphone ecosystem that gives users complete device control. "Reaching the $1.5 million milestone weeks ahead of schedule enables Purism to accelerate the production of the physical product. The company plans to move into hardware production as soon as possible to assemble a developer kit as well as initiate building the base software platform, which will be publicly available and open to the developer community." LWN looked at the privacy features planned for the phone in an article for this week's edition.