The Star Labs StarBook is Qubes-Certified!
The Star Labs StarBook is Qubes-Certified!
It is our pleasure to announce that the Star Labs StarBook is officially certified for Qubes OS Release 4! The Star Labs StarBook The Star Labs StarBook is a 14-inch laptop featuring open-source coreboot and EDK II firmware. In addition, the StarBook is currently the only Qubes-certifie...
that's great, but is it forklift certified?
Asking the real questions.
Oh wow! This is excellent news! I hope they'll also provide other privacy/security related features like Heads, the removal of the camera and/or microphone modules, pre-installed privacy screen, tamper-evident screws and packaging.
It says it has coreboot pre installed. I assume therefore its not difficult to flash Heads, which is based on coreboot?
Honestly, I don't know if that's the case; I always got scared whenever I saw the prerequisites for Heads in combination with the strict list of supported hardware. FWIW, the NV41 that's used for enabling Heads on NovaCustom's device is included in the short list of supported hardware for Heads, while -unfortunately- the same doesn't apply to the StarBook. I would love to be proven wrong though!
Looks like a Purism. Is it any better?
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To be fair, if you're referring to the "alleged" backdoors in Intel processes, there's pretty similar stuff going on in the AMD side too. That said, I still totally get not wanting to support Intel since they're definitely the shadiest of the two, and they've been awful value these days.
The Framework 13 AMD is pretty great though, can confirm. It's all I've ever wanted in a decent, repairable laptop.
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Can you explain a little bit? Which backdoors are you worried about with Qubes?