# Why supporting the Librem Phone crowdfunding campaign helps postmarketOS (and friends)

Proprietary components make smartphones insecure for the masses Whenever you buy any smartphone, you get a device full of proprietary components. These are integrated so deeply with each other that they can access everything on your phone, such as the camera, microphone, browser history and chat messages. Since these components are proprietary, they've been designed to make it impossible for anyone but the vendor to modify, and they can only be understood by others through immense efforts. Oftentimes, when people succeed in analyzing them, they find security holes and sometimes even backdoors.

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2017/09/24/librem-5/

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Created: 2026-10-25T12:50:12.606165+00:00

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Original source: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2017/09/24/librem-5/