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Re:The Liberty Phone by ldoughty on Friday June 30, 2023 @07:18PM (#36543927)
The video on their website is even more damaging...

Edit: Note, this is NOT a claim about this company, their security, or practices -- just a look at the "Made in USA" label they press heavily

"The integrated circuits can come from outside the united states"

A bit of research seems to indicate that this is a fuzzy system..

> The product’s final assembly or processing must take place in the U.S. The Commission then considers other factors, including how much of the product’s total manufacturing costs can be assigned to U.S. parts and processing, and how far removed any foreign content is from the finished product. [1]

So basically, they could have a foreign made network card, cpu, OS... but if you're making a $10,000 car and the total cost of the foreign assistance is <~$500?, it can still be Made in America while being 100% all logic from foreign sources and highly insecure (as long as the dollar costs work out satisfactory to a commission of people)

You can basically skirt the rules by taking 'assembled in America' another level or two deeper -- like they have. They also do the OS in-states, which they can likely claim is a "huge processing effort" -- which could make the hardware aspects and origin less important in the commissions review

[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/plain-language/bu...

Re:The Liberty Phone by FormerBandmate on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:39PM (#36545365)
Who doesn’t make their operating system in the United States? I can’t think of any technology I own that has an operating system not made here
Re:The Liberty Phone by walrus01 on Saturday July 01, 2023 @12:15AM (#36546523)
Linux doesn't have one specific national origin if you were to add up all the developers of the kernel and the base packages in a CLI only Debian install.
Re:The Liberty Phone by quantum_state on Saturday July 01, 2023 @07:07AM (#36548842)
This Made in USA is completely BS and scam …