Hi there!

Thank you very much for asking this!

All your articles are awesome and the home network series is even on a next level above everything!

IMHO the fundamentals of a private or secure network are laying on the door btw the inner and outer world, namely on the router, but I wouldn’t tell any secret if I’d say, im anything but an expert in this field…

So, I would really appreciate to read more about openwrt in general and about the Turris Omnia router and its settings. A detalied walkthrough on each setting in the Turris GUI and also in the openwrt lucy GUI.

My motivation is, that I plan to buy a Turris Omnia, so I want to learn more about it and also, why is it that much better, than a 50$ used router, which runs openwrt flawlessly too. Focusing only on the router functionalities, not on the capabilities to turn it into a NAS or a Nextcloud instance.

The following is not related to your project directly:

To see, what openwrt can offer, I flashed it on an old TP-Link N750, but after trying to set it up, it landed back in its box on the shelf… Honestly, I’m not familiar with all the settings, that lucy offers me, so the “f@ck-everything-up” vs “setting-up-my-secure-router” ratio was too high for me. Of course it’s not openwrt’s fault but mine, but tbh, I found the openwrt documentation, well, quite messed up and redundant so a straight forward series of detailed walkthrough - first just on the GUI(s) of the turris or openwrt in general - would be very warmly welcome, hopefully not just by me, but by a bunch of other people too.

During my research on the topic, I found the following blog posts, which make me think, like “hmm, these guys seem to know what they’re talking about but even their knives broke into this lock”, on the other hand, you seem to have no issues with the Turris. Could you please comment on these posts?

https://routersecurity.org/TurrisOmnia.php

Juraj Bednar – 30 Oct 16 Turris Omnia review I was eagerly awaiting for my Turris Omnia which I preordered on their Indiegogo campaign almost a year ago. The campaign raised more than 1.2 million dollars and the router was created by a team from Czech Republic’s .cz domain administrator CZ-NIC....

(just ignore mechanical issues, I’m a mechatronics engineer )

Back to a general topic:

My second wish - being so close to Christmas - would be to learn about LineageOS.

I understand your comment on another topic, that it would be just a snapshot of conclusions at that current point of time. OK, fair enough. On the other hand, you did a deep look into the /e/ rom, which performed quite poorly back that time - from being Google-free, as advertised.

Anyways, I don’t care about /e/, but about lineage, since I use that - w/o microg or anything from goglyu. Stock lineage plus f-droid on a sjaomi mi5. I know, all lineage ROMs for each device are unique, they don’t even run on the same kernel (3.xyz vs 4.sth), while being the same release, like 16.0.xx.

What I’m interested in is following: people write on several sites, forums, etc., that lineageos is not built with privacy in first place. OK. What does that mean? How deep and what has one need to tweak in general to turn lineageos into a privacy-focused OS? Don’t use the default browser, calculator, whatever default app or dig into the developer options and change system-level settings to prevent the phone to leak data to gagle, amazingon, (to the E-corp or the Black Army, hahaha)?

While I learnt already some, during my way into privacy, it would be so much appreciated if you would write such articles, which focus and describe questions like that above and more, which are on the line between an understanding of an average internet consumer and deep level insiders, like you are.

Thanks so much in advance guys! If I can contribute in any way, like sending an old phone for testing, whatever else, just ping me.

I really appreciate your work, just like I do appreciate and love privacytools.io.