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The Future of PrivacyTools

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Re: The Future of PrivacyTools

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post #24

Just thought I'd point out that I have a standing PR with privacytools from late 2019 and it never went anywhere, even though I was careful to ensure everything was done correctly. https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/pull/1619 After that experience I determined that privacytools is a club for cool kids.

Your PR claims to resolve issue 1618, but an open question in that issue is not addressed anywhere that I can see: "tell more about VyOS and how it is a privacy tool and secure and how we won't regret listing it [...] remember citations so your research can be confirmed" Is it possible that the privacytools folks are not willfully excluding your suggestion, but merely waiting until they understand it? I know what VyO…

Seems like a bit much to me. It’s pretty clear that the issue is no one maintains the router firmware section.

Re: The Future of PrivacyTools

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post #35

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> Doesn't sound like a great plan really. If I were you I'd work harder with the domain owner to get control. It sounds like he's just hard to reach, not obstructive as such. For context, we did bring this up with Burung Hantu, when he was around about 6 months ago. We offered to buy the domain. The exact details were discussed more here: https://old.reddit.com/comments/osvuf9/comment/h6rnkyt/ https://old.reddit.com/…

Fair enough, I didn't realise it was that bad. It wasn't possible to contact him some other way though?

We don't have any contact details but matrix, email. He isn't responding to either.

https://reddit.com/comments/osvuf9/comment/h6t4rl0/

Re: The Future of PrivacyTools

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post #36

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> It should really remain not for profit if you want to be taken seriously at what you do. At least make it a foundation if it needs a legal entity :) And be really careful who you take money from and under which conditions. That is the intention, and it says that in the blog article :). > Eventually, we plan on creating a new legal organization designed around the community to ensure our long-term sustainability. Th…

Thanks for the explanation, I missed that in the article. I have no idea what 501(c)(3) means however :D But great that you are remaining non profit.

One of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)(3)_organization
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