Time to get back to the original intent of this blog – talking about my paranoid obsession with information security! So break out your tinfoil hats my friends because this will be a fun ride. I’m looking for the most open source / freedom respecting portable computing experience I can possibly find and I’m going to document my work in real-time so you will get to experience the ups (and possibly the downs) of that path through the universe. With that said, let’s get rolling.

1. Freedom Laptops Reviews
2. Freedom Laptops For Sale
3. Freedom Laptops & Desktops Driver Download For Windows 7

I’ve always been fascinated with Richard Stallman, not just as a character, but because he tries to live out his life according to his beliefs. I’m more of a BSD guy than a GPL person, but the laptop he uses has fascinated me to the point that I have been actively searching for one for myself. After many months searching for that particular Chinese MIPS based laptop, I thought to myself, “there has to be something I can use.”

Driver 6.3.42-2 (Windows 7, 8, & 10) - 31.7 MB 1/26/2021 7:30:00 PM - Release notes Download Older Versions. Create Laptop Freedom as a Virtual Assistant. Work from wherever. Travel the world. Create a life you're in love with.

When I built my OpenBSD router using the APU2 board, I discovered that there are some amd64 systems that use open source BIOS. This one used Coreboot and after some investigation I discovered that there was an even more paranoid open source BIOS called Libreboot out there. That started to feel like it might scratch my itch. From doing more research, I discovered that after the Intel Core Duo chip, all future “Core i” chips have this lovely thing called the Intel Management Engine embedded in them that basically cannot be disabled without making the machine non-functional after a period of time. The particularly creepy thing about the IME is that it operates at a layer above the CPU which means that its use, if compromised, could allow an attacker complete control over your system.

Well, after playing around with some lower-powered systems like my APU2 board, my Thinkpad x230 and my SPARC64 boxes, I thought, if it runs amd64 code and I can run an open source operating system on it, the thing should be powerful enough for me to do most (if not all) of what I need it to do. At this point, I started looking for a viable machine. From a performance perspective, it looked like the Thinkpad x200, T400, T500 and W500 were all viable candidates. After paying attention on eBay for a while, I saw something that was either going to be a sweet deal, or a throwaway piece of garbage!

I found a listing for a Thinkpad T500 that said it didn’t come with a power adapter and was 100% untested. From looking at the photos, it seemed like there was nothing that had been molested about it. All of the outside and bottom panels that should be there in a working system were present. Obviously, nobody was jumping on something this risky so I thought, “what the heck” and dropped a bit at the opening price of $24.99. Yes, you heard that right, $25 bucks! Well, guess what. I won the auction. Now to see what I got.

When the laptop showed up, I discovered it was minus its hard drive (but the outside plastic cover was still in place). I plugged in my x230’s power adapter and hit the button. I got lights and was dropped to the BIOS screen. To my eternal joy, I discovered that the machine I had purchased for $25 was 100% functional and included the T9400 2.54 GHz Core 2 Duo CPU and the 1680×1050 display panel. W00t!

First things first, I need to get this machine a hard drive and get the RAM upgraded from the 2GB that it showed up with to 8GB. Good news is that these two purchases only totaled $50 for the pair. An aftermarket 9-cell replacement battery was another $20. Throw in a supported WiFi card that doesn’t require a non-free blob from Libreboot at $5.99 off of eBay and $5 for a hard drive caddy and I’m looking at about $65 in additional parts bringing the total cost of the laptop, fully loaded up at just over $100. Not bad at all…

Once all of the parts arrived and were installed, now for the fun part. Disassembling the entire thing down to the motherboard so we can re-flash the BIOS with Libreboot. The guide looks particularly challenging for this but hey, I have a nice set of screwdrivers from iFixit and a remarkable lack of fear when it comes to disassembling things. Should be fun!

NOTE: A very important step you need to take is to ensure that you have updated the machine to the latest & greatest BIOS from Lenovo before you start the disassembly process. The update not only flashes the BIOS itself but some other firmware on the board. Additionally, if you ever feel like you will need a VGA option ROM, extract it now before you start disassembling the machine!

Well, fun didn’t even come close. I wish I had shot some pictures along the way because at one point I had a heap of parts in one corner of my “workbench” (the dining room table) and just the bare motherboard, minus the CPU sitting in front of me. With the help of a clip and a bunch of whoops wires (patch cables), I connected my Beaglebone Black to the BIOS chip on the bare motherboard and attempted to read the chip. #fail

I figured out after doing some more digging that you need to use the connector on the left side of the BBB if you hold it with the power connector facing away from you. In addition, you should probably read the entire process through instead of stopping at the exciting pinout connector diagram because I missed the bit about the 3.3v power supply need to have ground connected to pin 2 of the BIOS chip.

Speaking of that infamous 3.3v power supply, I managed to bend a paperclip into a U shape and jam it into the connector of an old ATX power supply I had in a closet and source power from that. I felt like MacGyver for that one!

I was able to successfully read the original Thinkpad BIOS and then flash the Libreboot + Grub2 VESA framebuffer image onto the laptop! I gulped loudly and started the reassembly process. Other than having some cable routing difficulties because the replacement WiFi card didn’t have a 5Ghz antenna, it all went back together. Now for the moment of truth! I hit the power button and everything worked!!!

At this point I happily scurried to download the latest snapshot of OpenBSD – current and install it. Well, things got a little weird here. Looks like I have to use GRUB to boot this machine now and GRUB won’t boot an OpenBSD machine with Full Disk Encryption. That was a bit of a bummer for me. I tilted against that windmill for several days and then finally admitted defeat. So now what to do? Install Arch?

Well, here’s where I think the crazy caught up to me. I decided to be an utter sell out and install Ubuntu Gnome Edition 17.04 (since that will be the default DE going forward) with full disk encryption. I figured I could have fun playing around in a foreign land and try to harden the heck out of that operating system. I called Ubuntu “grandma’s Linux” because a friend of mine installed it on his mom’s laptop for her but I figured what the heck – let’s see how the other half live!

After running that Ubuntu 17.04 install I have to say I was pretty impressed. Instead of the normal 45 minute setup time for me with Arch using my cheat notes, I was rebooting into the OS with a nice graphical full disk encryption prompt inside of five minutes. I love to eat crow so I sent my friend a quick email saying that maybe I was too hard on mee-maw’s laptop OS of choice! 🙂

Now came the fun part of hardening things. I downloaded my new favorite starting point, a tool called “lynis” that sniffs out your system and determines what you can do to improve the security footprint on it. I did find out that the version that you get from the default package repos on Ubuntu was a bit out of date so I downloaded the latest from the lynis website, built it and installed it. Problem solved. I love open source!

After tweaking everything that I thought was reasonable to be tweaked on a non-server OS running a desktop (including adding an encrypted master password to Grub2), I had a reasonable well-hardened system. Next step was to turn the dial to eleven! I use a non log-keeping VPN service with an egress point that is outside of the fourteen eyes nations, so I set that up as an on-demand thing for me to switch on in NetworkManager and it worked just fine – with the one exception that I always forget about – IPv6 leaks your actual IP address on the VPN! So I did some searching and found out to to 100% disable IPv6, did a quick reboot and test and all was well!

I then ran nmap on the localhost interface and found some ports open I didn’t like (SMB, etc.) Just to avoid my paranoia driving me into a catalepsy, I hopped onto my OpenBSD router and did an nmap scan of the laptop from the outside (still on the LAN though). Sure enough, the default firewall configuration was not exposing those ports so I was OK. Now I installed the latest version of the TOR browser and configured my default Firefox to how I like it from the great guide at http://privacytools.io so that I had a minimal footprint even when running outside of the limited protection that TOR gives you.

Now for the thing that most of my security brethren will laugh at me for doing – installing ClamAV with on access scanning. Even though I am quite careful about what I click on, I figure it never hurts to have that extra layer of protection. I set up ClamAV with FreshClam to automatically refresh my subscriptions, made the necessary tweaks to the /etc/clamav/clamd.conf file and voila – I had something that automatically detected and deleted and suspected viral-infected files with a nice Gnome3 popup showing what happened.

At this point, while I didn’t have what I originally set out to do – build a laptop with Libreboot and OpenBSD, I did have a nice compromise that is as well hardened as I can possibly make it and very functional in terms of being able to do what I need to do on a day to day basis. Do I wish it was more portable? Of course. This thing is like a six or seven pounder. However, I feel much more secure in knowing that the vast majority of the code running on this machine is open source and has all the eyes of the community on it, versus something that comes from a vendor that we cannot inspect. My hope is that someone with the talent (unfortunately I lack those skills) takes an interest in getting FDE working with Libreboot on OpenBSD and I will most happily nuke and repave this “ancient of days” machine to run that!

Let me know if you enjoyed this post please! Keep the cards and letters coming. 🙂

You came here searching for Freedom Apk. Right? Do you want unlimited keys in Subway Surfers or unlimited coins in Temple Run or any add-on in an Android App? Then Freedom App is a must-have app for you. There are more than 2.2 Million Android apps & games. Have you ever thought, how these apps and games recover all of their investment & make profits? The first thing which came into your mind is Advertisements. Right? But for most of the App developers, it’s not much worthy. So the alternate way which most of the developers implement is In-App purchases. In most of the Android apps & games, In-app purchases is implemented in a way that it is almost necessary to do in-app purchase to unlock any particular Player or Car and now you want to unlock that particular Player or Car but not willing to pay for it. Don’t worry, there’s another way to do in-app purchases for free and that’s what we will discuss here today.

Freedom Laptops Reviews

Note :- You will not find Freedom app in any legit App Store like Play Store or Amazon App Store. So, to install this Android app, you need to download APK file of this Android app on your smartphone. (Don’t worry, we will provide Freedom Apk on our website).

Freedom Apk – Everything You Need To Know About It

So I guess you have already got a rough idea about Freedom app. Basically, it helps you in doing in-app purchases for free. Note that Freedom app will not work with every android app or game but it will work with most of them. So without wasting a single second, let’s move to features of Freedom app now.

Features of Freedom App:

Undoubtedly, Freedom app is a must have android app for rooted android phone users. As this app is not helpful to gamers only but can bypass in-app purchases for free of other Android apps as well like of PicsArt. (You can easily get those paid filters, Clip-arts, Frames for free using this app). So let’s have a look at all the features of Freedom app for android.

• Using Freedom App, you will be able to get coins, gems and other resources free for which you have to paid earlier.
• This app will be able to bypass in-app purchases in most of the Android apps and games.
• Get the full versions of any game or app available in your android phone.
• It is supported by every Rooted Android phone with Android version grater than Gingerbread (Android 2.3).
• Updated regularly so that it supports most of the android apps.
• It uses multiple patches and mods to exploit Android apps and games.
• It can remove ads from most of the installed apps in your smartphone.

I guess, you have got enough information about Freedom app. So let’s discuss some other details like minimum requirements and how you can install this app in your android phone.

Minimum Requirements To Install Freedom Apk:

Before you go through the installation procedure of Freedom apk in your android phone, it is necessary that you should check all minimum requirements required by the app. You need to have at least:

• => Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).
• Rooted Android phone. (If your phone is not rooted, then you should try Creehack app).
• 512 MB RAM.
• 100 MB free internal storage.

Steps To Install Freedom Apk In Your Android Phone:

It is very easy to download and install Freedom Apk in your android phone as it’s quite small in size. It will allow you to crack the license verification stuff or in bypassing the In-App purchases of Android applications or games. Now if you are one of the game freaks then be prepared to earn unlimited number of Gold Coins, Keys and other stuffs in your favourite android games. Here, I will explain all the steps that is required to download and install the Freedom app in your Android phone. So let’s start.

Step 1: First of all, Enable Unknown Sources option from settings. (Open Settings -> Security -> Unknown Sources).

Step 2: Now, Download Freedom APK in your android from below download button. (You can download it on your Computer as well and later you can transfer it to your android phone via USB Cable).

Now in further steps, we will assume that you have Freedom apk file ready in your smartphone.

Step 3: Open any File Manager in your smartphone (If you don’t have pre-installed File Manager app in your phone, then you can install any other third party file manager app like ES File Explorer). From File Manager, Go to the Downloads folder or any other folder to which you have downloaded APK file of Freedom app.

Step 4: Open the Freedom Apk file and click on install button now.

Step 5: In few seconds, Freedom app will get installed in your smartphone.

So you have successfully installed Freedom app in your Android phone. So let’s move on to next section of our article in which we will be explaining in depth – how you can use Freedom app to do in-app purchases for free.

Learn How To Do In-App Purchases with Freedom Apk?

So, follow below steps to use Freedom app properly in your android phone.

Step 1: First of all, Open the Freedom app in your android phone from the App drawer.

Step 2: Now, you will get a pop up asking for root permissions. Grant Root permissions to the app by clicking on Grant/Allow button.

Step 3: Now, you will be able to see the list of all the pre-installed apps in your android smartphone.

Step 4: Select any Android app from the list in which you want to do in-app purchases for free. For example – Subway Surfers or Temple Run or PicsArt.

Step 5: Click on app name and wait for few seconds now.

Step 6: Once, your required Android app is launched go to the store of that particular app (where you need to bypass the in-app purchases).

Step 7: Just click on Buy button now for every in-app purchase.

Repeat the above steps for every android app in which you want to do free in-app purchases. Have you got No Connection error in Google Play Store while doing in-app purchases? Don’t worry, it is not happening with you only. It is a very common error which many Freedom app users face.

Video Tutorial Explaining How To Use Freedom App:

Fix Google Play Store No Connection Error After Installing Freedom Apk

Don’t worry. You can easily fix this error by following below steps carefully. So let’s start.

Step 1) First of download any file manager in your android which allows you to edit system files like ES File Explorer.

Step 2) Now, Go to root directory of your android phone & look for a folder named as system.

Step 3) Open etc folder and find hosts file there.

Step 4) Edit that hosts file and paste below code in it.

127.0.0.1 localhost

Step 5) Save this file. Open Application Manager from settings of your android phone now.

Step 6) Select Google Play Store from the list and click on Clear Data button.

Step 7) Reboot your android phone now.

Voila! This issue is fixed now. You can do free in-app purchases easily using Freedom app now.

Some Alternatives To Freedom Apk:

Though you will be able to crack most of the Android apps and games using Freedom app, but in any case if you need to have Freedom app alternative due to any compatibility issue or any other reason, you can try below apps.

• AppSara
• Leo Play Card

Freedom Laptops For Sale

Final Words:

Freedom Laptops & Desktops Driver Download For Windows 7

I have covered all things about Freedom apk in depth – steps to install Freedom apk in your Android problem and how to use it properly. So doing in app purchases for free in your favourite apps and games now and have fun. So if you liked this tutorial about Freedom apk, don’t forget to share it with your friends on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter.