Since January 2017 secure mail service Tutanota is seeing an exponential growth in users. This trend has started in the
second half of 2016, but has really taken off recently. Simultaneous to this development privacy-focused search engines
like Qwant.com and duckduckgo.com are also growing quickly. The reasons - as our users tell us - are not only to be
found in politics, but politics do play a big part.
Cloudflare published a serious bug in its software that revealed user passwords, authentication tokens and cookies of millions
of websites. Tutanota was not affected as your secure mailbox does not use Cloudflare or any similar service. But if you
are using your Tutanota password for any other service (which you shouldn't!), change it right away.
It may be accessible
to whoever is looking for it somewhere on the internet.
**Fake news alert: This post is of course not true and was meant as a joke. We at Tutanota respect and value
everybody's privacy and would never reveal any personal data about any user. We apologize for any misunderstanding
and will refrain from parody in the future.**
**Fake news alert: This post is of course not true and was meant as a joke. We at Tutanota respect and value
everybody's privacy and would never reveal any personal data about any user. We apologize for any misunderstanding
and will refrain from parody in the future.**
This week well-known German journalist Christian Stöcker posted a commentary with a rather terrifying thesis:
Only the bad relations
between Trump and the NSA are currently stopping him from abusing the NSA to use this surveillance apparatus for anti-democratic
purposes. The US authorities need to prevent him from using their tools to oppress the press and political opponents.
Today is Data Privacy Day. Many people are still not aware of the importance of privacy and how it is being invaded on a
day-to-day basis. Yet the invasion of our privacy affects each and every one of us, and it is crucial to spread the word about it.
Eight years ago many people hoped in vain that Obama would reduce NSA surveillance. Now many fear that US surveillance will
become even worse under Trump's rule. But faith and fear are wrong guides when it comes to protecting your privacy:
Precaution is what we all need.
A couple of months ago we introduced the option to buy additional storage when you need more than the 1 GB that every
account gets for free. While we trusted people would be honest and upgrade voluntarily, we had to learn otherwise.
With this update we enforce the storage capacity limit for every mailbox.
The highest court in Europe ruled this week that "general and indiscriminate" data retention directives are against
European Union law. This is a great victory for our right to privacy. It
calls into question many recent surveillance laws passed by European Union member states such
as the United Kingdom, Sweden and Germany.
With this update we have significantly improved spam handling by adding DKIM and DMARC to Tutanota. In addition we
are changing our support system. Up to now we have answered all support requests. However, with well over one million
users, we need to put more time into development than answering innumberable emails every day.
