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When buying your #network #connected #devices, make sure that vendors #support matches your #expectations. Devices might be #EoL ⚰️ even thought they are still being sold 💰. #Maintenance is hard - our decade old Turris 1.0 still receives #updates (contrary to the industry standards) and it is not easy 💪. Sometimes you can #reflash the device with your own #firmware to fix the #security issues, so prefer devices from vendor that pushes their #hardware support #upstream. vulncheck.com/blog/zyxel-telne

VulnCheckZyxel Telnet Vulnerabilities - Blog - VulnCheckVulnCheck and partner GreyNoise discovered Zyxel-related vulnerabilities being targeted in the wild. In this blog, VulnCheck describes the vulnerabilities CVE-2024-40891 and CVE-2025-0890.
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@nixCraft The problem is that @mozillaofficial refuses to acknowledge that #Firefox and it's promise of #privacy and #openness is their "core #product" and that many people, including myself, will #divest and #boycott any #donations to them until they apologize and undo the harm they pushed with "#AI" / #LLM - based #Enshittification.

In fact, I hope #Firefox gets handed over to @torproject and #TorBrowser becomes the new #Upstream!

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@karlauerbach nodds in agreement

It's high time @mozilla / @mozillaofficial / #Mozilla just hands over #Firefox to @torproject / #TorProject so they can make #TorBrowser the new #upstream for #Gecko.

And the only "technically necessary" are #login - #cookies (and like #session-cookies)!