Unboxing Edward Snowden's Favorite Laptop

So this is a really interesting product in front of me, Purism

Willy Do ordered this up. Then, yesterday, Edward Snowden is on Rogan's podcast talking about spying and tech

Basically, everything that they could monitor, they were monitoring. It reignites the conversation about how our technology is infiltrating our lives

or has the potential to do so. Inside of this box is a laptop targeted with special features to alleviate some of the concern over potentially being spied on

Willie Doo showed it to me, so here we go. This is the perfect laptop for Edward Snowden

Inside of this package, I believe is the 13-inch. They also make a 15-inch 1080p display, Core i7-7500U

So it's an ultrabook, obviously. Up to 32 gigs of RAM. integrated graphics you can configure it on the website up to two terabyte NVMe SSD you pick the

firmware and you pick the operating system so they have something here called pure boot for the

firmware pure OS for the software is it hack proof what nothing really is but it aims to make the

process of infiltration much more difficult this has a separate wireless card it has a separate

controller for audio camera usb and so forth another interest i don't know if i've ever seen

a laptop sealed in a plastic bag when it arrives wow that's very interesting okay it's still slim

and i like how it has no branding matte black finish aluminum a power brick and that's it they

keep it super simple for the stealth users you got a bezel on this baby that a bezel on the baby If this is what you looking for you gonna put up with that Yeah it looks pretty sleek If you full out living hacker zone you can live with the bezel

What is it? It's a black laptop. That's all I know. What kind of laptop was he using? I don't know. It was black

It's very laptop-y. It's exactly. You have hardware switches over here for camera and microphone can go off in one click

Just like that. Dead. Kill switch. Electrical cut. And then this secondary kill switch for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

So this turns off your transmitting radios. Nothing goes in, nothing comes out

You have a headphone jack, USB port, and DC in for charging it

Oh, there's actually a lot of ports on this thing. Over on the other side, another USB port, full-size HDMI, USB Type-C connector, and a full-size SD card slot

And it's three pounds. It's only three pounds. Yes. Lightweight. keyboard chiclet style this key is important maybe will you can refresh me it's a powerful key to

search your computer and applications one button to rule them all brown fox duh quick yeah they

have a little hacker to him little hat snowden would go for it he would approve this would be

legal to do but we can't tell you why trackpad pretty smooth so far look at that this is how you

know you're in pure os baby crypt setup wireless networking is disabled okay we turn it on well

what about my switch my switch is off now it's on there we go i had to turn it on to initiate the

connection the software toggle did nothing until i initiated the hardware toggle it is running linux

okay it's based on linux privacy warning location services allows applications to determine your

geographical location an indication is shown when these services are in use i going to leave that off for now okay We named the device Set a disk encryption password

You see what I'm saying, Will? It encourages you to be secure. You're a secure individual

Guy like you. It's nice onboarding. There it is. You need it to decrypt the disk of this computer

Okay. It's a big moment right now. Don't lose it, Will

Don't lose it. We're ready to go. You like that name, Will

Pure OS? It's appropriate. Yeah, Pure. Activities. Ooh. Look at that. See a little dock over here

Let's see what the stock browser looks like. Ooh, it doesn't load a homepage

It just, it's blank until you do something. It has rules for forced encryption connections for double-click Google, Google APIs, services, YouTube

Do you know how secure I am right now? And, you know, of everybody in the United States, anybody you want, if you could pull up their text messages

anybody you want, if you could see anything they've ever typed into that Google search box, right

Joe, what is the worst thing you've ever typed into that search box

Obviously, it's a pretty typical laptop speaker. If you're this super private individual, you're probably wearing these earbuds like Snowden is

They've got stuff baked into the browser when you boot it up

This thing called Ublock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere. And when they're enabled, they're blocking all kinds of activities that are happening via the browser from the sites that you're visiting

But they slow things down quite a bit. It's like I was saying to Will

If you got 10 locks on your house it gonna be a secure house but it also gonna take you 10 times as long to come and go You get a lot of people they put some sort of a sticker over the webcam if they nervous The switch is obviously the best implementation

When I click the switch off, let's see if the camera goes off in the software

3, 2, 1, dead. Error playing video from the webcam. That's pretty cool

You have to admit that. So the purism key, let's give that a shot

What happens? Oh. oh that's cool so this triggers the same effect as clicking the activities button

so you can hit the purism key and just start searching you could look for jack

and it'll it brings up some clocks some software but this can look throughout the entire system so

what if i did sound yeah it'll bring up the sound settings that's pretty fast too the kill switch

for the wi-fi you can see the wi-fi up here so let's make sure that goes dead as well if i click

that off boom see the airplane pops up straight away it's so convenient that i feel like people

would actually use it do you yes all right so there you have it a very simple clean type of

laptop it's not going to win any awards for being the most cutting edge appearance wise but the core

focus here is to give you kind of the the most secure experience you can have on a streamlined

premium looking laptop without the need to do a ton of configuration yourself you boot this thing

up you do the setup you have the hardware toggles you have the pure os you have their boot system

it encourages encryption of the drive it gives you a more secure place to do your do your things

well whatever that happens to be whether you're willie do or edward snowden