We are happy to announce that we are working together with the L3S Research Institute of the Leibniz University of
Hanover on PQmail - a research project with the goal to implement quantum computer resistant cryptography available for
everyone in Tutanota.
Since the Snowden leaks in 2013 everybody knows that secret services around the world are monitoring online traffic. The
German BND is no different. However, in Germany privacy rights are strictly protected by the German constitution. Now, the
Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that the surveillance by the BND is unconstitutional and must change. A win for
privacy - and another reminder that only end-to-end encryption can protect our data.
At Tutanota we always try to encrypt as much of your data as possible. Unfortunately, we made a mistake which led to
unencrypted storing of birthdays of your contacts. This has happened for the birthdays of contacts which have been created or
edited after June 2018. Please note that this bug only affected the birthdays of your contacts. All other attributes
of your contacts (name, email address, etc.) have been and will always be stored end-to-end encrypted.
We are excited to let you know that with our latest release we have implemented MTA-STS support for custom domains
by joining forces with Let’s Encrypt. While today almost all email providers support this important security extension
for their main domain, it is still very hard to get for people using their own domain to send and receive mails.
This must change as MTA-STS brings much greater security to all email users.
Email is a highly sensitive matter: bank statements, social media logins, personal emails - a lot of information is
stored in everybody's mailbox. As data leaks and
identity thefts are the biggest threats online, it is crucial to review your email choice and pick a secure email
provider that you can trust. In this blog post, we explain what is important when it comes to trusting an
email service.
On Press Freedom Day we have interviewed Tim Verheyden, the journalist who broke the story that not just the machine
but also Google employees are
listening when we talk to devices like Google Home. The analysis of our voices by Google might be acceptable to some,
but listening in on our most intimate moments without our knowledge is a privacy violation that
many did not expect. Thanks to the free press, Tim could uncover a problem with Silicon Valley subcontractors that
transcends Google.
The original plan of the German government was to build a corona tracing app that should store data centrally. Due to heavy
criticism, the German government changed course:
The tracing app that will warn people about having been in contact with an infected person will only store contact data on mobile
phones, just like data protectionists demanded.
Location tracking on smart devices happens more often than you think: Google maps, fitness apps, and others track your
every move to provide or improve their services. Authorities have long desired this kind of data to solve crimes. Today,
more geofencing requests are issued in the USA than ever before. This is not only a threat to freedom and democracy,
it can also put innocents in jail.
Spoofed emails are scam emails that are much harder to spot as scam. Some organizations that do not set up their email
system adequately make it possible for scammers to send fake emails that appear as if they were
actually coming from the organization in question. Since the coronavirus pandemic, scammers are increasingly trying to
impersonate the World Health Organization (WHO) when sending scam emails.
We are happy to announce that we have updated Tutanota. Your secure mailbox is now even more secure as we have just
strengthened our phishing protection system. Users can now report phishing emails so that other users are being
warned about these phishing attempts. We took on the challenge to implement this system in a completely private way to make
sure it meets our high standards when it comes to protecting your privacy.
The coronavirus is a severe threat, and governments around the world fight hard to tackle the crisis.
Surveillance is escalating and more and more governments, particularly
authoritarian ones, abolish privacy rights to fight the pandemic. But will these infringements of our rights come to an
end once the crisis is over?
Celebrate with us six years of our encrypted email client Tutanota! Six years ago, today, we have published Tutanota,
the first automatically encrypted email client.
Since then we have immensely improved Tutanota, and for the first time in Tutanota history we are asking all our users what they like
about Tutanota and what they would like to see improved. Check out the Tutanota questionnaire!
