Re: [Trisquel-users] Learning self-defense

[legimet . calc]

A keyboard doesn't have firmware loaded by a Linux driver. If it has any,  
it's probably stored on the device itself. Firmware loaded by the Linux  
kernel is mostly for wifi and graphics (radeon) but also for some ethernet  
cards.

Since Tails uses the Debian kernel, all the blobs are external ones (not  
embedded in driver source code) and you can easily remove them (or replace  
with free ones). Of course, this won't make it FSF-endorsable, but it's still  
easy to remove the nonfree stuff if you want to use it. (The Debian kernel  
also "suggests" installing these blobs in the logs, which is another reason  
why the FSF won't endorse it)