Let's celebrate this anniversary by launching our own first and fully upstream supported hardware design.
Nice! Check it out:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-one-celebrating-20-years-of-openwrt/183684
The Danish data protection authority (Datatilsynet) has issued an injunction regarding student data being funneled to Google through the use of Chromebooks and Google Workspace services in the country's schools.
The matter was brought to the agency's attention roughly four years ago by a concerned parent and activist, Jesper Graugaard, who protested how student data is sent to Google without any consideration about the potential for misuse or the impact it could have on those persons in the future.
The agency has now decided that the current methods of transferring personal data to Google do not have a legal basis for all disclosed purposes. Hence, 53 municipalities across Denmark must adjust their data processing practices.
Specifically, municipalities are ordered to:
Cease the transfer of personal data to Google for specific purposes or obtain a clear legal basis for such transfers,
Analyze and document how personal data is processed before using tools like Google Workspace, and
Ensure that Google refrains from processing any data it receives for non-compliant purposes.
The agency clarified that permissible uses of student data include providing the educational services offered by Google Workspace, enhancing the security and reliability of these services, facilitating communication, and fulfilling legal obligations.
]]>I check out my old devices (laptops, phones...) from time to time to use them as a server, to give them away, or if they've really reached the end for good, they might find peace at the dump. But most of the time they actually find their way back into the drawer.
This time I found an old tab in my drawer. A Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite T110. I searched for something great for the device, a lineage rom or something else. It turned out to be something else. But not just another custom rom, no, it was postmarketos!
What am I supposed to do with that? I'm not sure, the fact that postmarketos is running on it is great. I'll probably just install a browser (homeassistant) to check the security cameras and put it on the wall. Or another DNS backup? Probably not. Not sure yet. We'll see. The options are now different for this device than "just" Android.
If you also have the t110 or t111, just check wiki.postmarketos.org. The link to XDA is also there.
Have fun.
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]]>WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday.
In a letter to the Department of Justice, Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials were demanding the data from Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google and Apple (AAPL.O). Although details were sparse, the letter lays out yet another path by which governments can track smartphones.
Apps of all kinds rely on push notifications to alert smartphone users to incoming messages, breaking news, and other updates. These are the audible "dings" or visual indicators users get when they receive an email or their sports team wins a game. What users often do not realize is that almost all such notifications travel over Google and Apple's servers.
That gives the two companies unique insight into the traffic flowing from those apps to their users, and in turn puts them "in a unique position to facilitate government surveillance of how users are using particular apps," Wyden said. He asked the Department of Justice to "repeal or modify any policies" that hindered public discussions of push notification spying.
In a statement, Apple said that Wyden's letter gave them the opening they needed to share more details with the public about how governments monitored push notifications.
]]>]]>In recent years we have focused on the policy and legal aspects of Router Freedom. Now, with the help of our Netherlands volunteer team, we are publishing the Router Freedom tech wiki, which provides information on the necessary steps you need to use and connect your own router. We need your help to get it printed!
The FSFE has concentrated its efforts in recent years to conduct a European-wide initiative to defend the rights and interests of end-users regarding Router Freedom, after the series of reforms introduced by EU telecom law with regards to internet devices and terminal equipment. Numerous reports, policy papers, news items, and dedicated studies have been published so that regulators and legislators all around Europe could make informed decisions to safeguard this fundamental right for net neutrality.
tuta.com/blog/outlook-falsely-marks-tutanota-emails-as-junk/
This is just another example of how much power Microsoft has. But sometimes I'm not sure they really know what they're doing.
Anyway, dealing with Windows email users (businesses and individuals) can be a nightmare.
If you plan on using your own email server, sooner or later you'll be playing this game too.
]]>The updates went smoothly as always.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=37511.msg183948#msg183948
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=37532.msg184055#msg184055
]]>We’re currently investigating unusual activity on the OpenWrt Wiki server and decided to shut down the machine since we have reasons to suspect a security compromise.
We'll follow up with further details in this thread as soon as we have more information. Since we do have to review the integrity of our wiki backups, restoring the website might take a little while.
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-homepage-wiki-offline-for-unplanned-maintenance/179782
]]>Hi,
The OpenWrt community is proud to announce the newest stable release of the OpenWrt 22.03 stable version series. It fixes security issues, improves device support, and brings a few bug fixes.
Download firmware images using the OpenWrt Firmware Selector:
https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=22.03.6 24
Download firmware images directly from our download servers:
https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/22.03.6/targets/ 9
OpenWrt 23.03 EOL in April 2024
The OpenWrt 22.03 series will be supported till April 2024 according to the OpenWrt security policy. The last release from the OpenWrt 22.03 series is planned for April 2024, after this date we will not provide any updates for OpenWrt 22.03, not even for severe security problems. We encourage everyone to upgrade to OpenWrt 23.05 which will be supported till 2025.
Main changes between OpenWrt 22.03.5 and OpenWrt 22.03.6:
More at https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-22-03-6-sixth-service-release/179695/1
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