It is reassuring to read that the howls of discontent are being heeded at Jolla but it does appear that this is a fire fighting response only.

Currently the Jolla can only be recovered by being reflashed at the factory or service centre which is not a long term acceptable solution.

This is a major hurdle but Qualcomm can be helpful as per the FOSS WLAN USB dongle as supplied by ThinkPenguin:

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-lin...ux-tpe-n150usb

Using below chipset:

http://qca.qualcomm.com/wp-content/u.../11/AR9271.pdf


This device is accredited by the Free Software Foundation:

http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endo...t/thinkpenguin.

Please work towards the facility for owners to reflash the total system and enable owner controlled lock down and encryption. We need to keep thieves and government agencies’ out of our hardware.

Richard