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A book excerpt published by Vanity Fair alleges that the Dutch government hacked into Jared Kushner's phone. Kushner's representatives have denied the claim on the record, calling it false and unsupported by evidence such as bank statements or transaction records.
The Netherlands is developing DAWO (Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid), a sovereign IT ecosystem built on NixOS, a Linux distribution with roots in Dutch-created Nix package-manager technology. The project aims to supply government and public institutions with a homegrown operating system, office applications, cloud services and management tools as alternatives to US software. Early pilot deployments of DAWO have already launched in private and local settings, with plans to expand across Dutch institutions.
After US sanctions on the International Criminal Court left its chief prosecutor without access to Microsoft services including email, the Dutch government launched DAWO (Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid) to reduce dependence on US-based software and cloud services. The Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations is overseeing the project, with SSC-ICT, DICTU and DUO-ICT building a system around NixOS, and eight municipalities are already running trials.
A Dutch government initiative is reportedly building an alternative to Microsoft's software stack using NixOS, an open-source Linux distribution known for its reproducible system configuration. Details of the project's scope, timeline and funding were not specified in available materials.