-Purism started with a crowdsupply campaign to deliver a modern laptop
-with full software support and a coreboot BIOS. I know that, after
-this initial success, they worked hard to try to solve the "NSA backdoor
-coprocessor" issue, known as the "Management Engine". Ironically, inspired
-by Purism, Intel's internal efforts became moot, as a 3rd party reverse
-engineered an Intel BIOS and discovered the "nsa\_me\_off\_switch" parameter,
-designed to be used by the NSA when Intel equipment is deployed within
-NSA premises.
+Purism started with a
+[Crowdsupply campaign](https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-15)
+to deliver a modern laptop with full software support and a
+[coreboot BIOS](https://puri.sm/coreboot/).
+I know that, after this initial success, they worked hard to try to
+solve the "NSA backdoor coprocessor" issue, known as the
+["Management Engine"](https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intelme).
+Ironically, inspired by Purism, Intel's internal efforts became moot,
+as a 3rd party reverse engineered an Intel BIOS and discovered the
+["nsa\_me\_off\_switch"](https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/08/29/2239231/researchers-find-a-way-to-disable-intel-me-component-courtesy-of-the-nsa)
+parameter, designed to be used by the NSA when Intel equipment is deployed
+within NSA premises.