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Get your own email domain with Tutanota!

2020-10-09

Get your own email domain with Tutanota!

Tutanota is one of the few services that lets you add multiple own domains under any paid plan. Get custom email addresses @yourcompany the easy way and build customer trust by hosting your professional and secure email account with the encrypted email service Tutanota.

The NSA phone surveillance program was illegal and expensive: And it did not stop a single terrorist attack.

2020-10-02

The NSA phone surveillance program was illegal and expensive: And it did not stop a single terrorist attack.

Data from the USA and Europe show that mass surveillance does not help to stop terrorist attacks. Yet, the authorities continue to rely on surveillance technology like facial recognition and location tracking. Instead we must focus on our human rights and protect what is important to keep the power with the people: Our right to privacy and freedom of speech.

China's Social Credit System: It's both unique and part of a global trend.

2020-09-25

China's Social Credit System: It's both unique and part of a global trend.

Imagine a world where everyone bins their trash, no one crosses a red light and everyone pays their taxes so that schools are always well funded. This sounds like a nice utopia. But add to this surveillance cameras, face recognition, and the requirement to always praise the government. Now it sounds like an Orwellian nightmare come true: the Chinese Social Credit System.

DDoS attack on our DNS infrastructure

2020-09-17

DDoS attack on our DNS infrastructure

Last night multiple DNS providers were attacked to take down Tutanota. In combination with wrongly cached DNS entries for the tutanota.com domain at different DNS servers, this led to a downtime of several hours for millions of Tutanota users. We had switched DNS entries, but as the propagation takes time, some users did not get access to Tutanota immediately.

We must ban facial recognition to defend privacy.

2020-09-16

We must ban facial recognition to defend privacy.

Facial recognition lets companies and authorities track and find people based on big data. This comes with lots of threats, not just to individuals. It is also a severe threat to basic human rights like privacy or freedom of speech. And, as a consequence, face recognition is also a threat to democracy itself. Facial recognition comes with so many problems that we must ban it now.

Update on the continuous DDoS attack on Tutanota.

2020-09-14

Update on the continuous DDoS attack on Tutanota.

This weekend continuous DDoS attacks and an infrastructure issue led to downtimes for hundreds of users. While we were able to mitigate most of the DDoS, an overreacting IP-block to fight the attacks led to hundreds of users not being able to access Tutanota for multiple hours this Sunday. We deeply apologize for this mistake; it has now been fixed. Here we want to quickly explain why we have to build the DDoS mitigation ourselves, how the progress is so far, and what you can expect as next steps. Thank you very much for supporting our fight against the attackers and for our right to privacy!

Transparency Report & Warrant Canary for the secure email service Tutanota

2016-01-01 / Updated: 2020-09-09

Transparency Report & Warrant Canary for the secure email service Tutanota

This is Tutanota's transparency report and warrant canary information. While in Germany a gag order is legally not possible, we want to give you peace of mind by publishing a warrant canary.

Continuous DDoS is an attack on our right to privacy.

2020-09-07

Continuous DDoS is an attack on our right to privacy.

Tutanota is still being under DDoS by unknown adversaries. We are constantly mitigating the attacks. These attacks have been ongoing since middle of August, and while we have immensely improved our DDoS mitigation system since then, we have to keep fighting the attacks to make sure no one can stop you from using encrypted emails. We deeply thank all our users for bearing with us during this difficult time. Now is the time to support us and our fight for privacy to show the attackers that they will not be successful!

Let's celebrate six years of open source!

2020-09-02

Let's celebrate six years of open source!

We are happy to celebrate six years of open source with you! Six years ago, we have published the Tutanota web client as open source. Since then, we had to overcome major obstacles and by taking on these challenges, we achieved great things. Nonetheless, our roadmap never ends, and there are many more features that we want to add. We are excited that we can rely on your continuous support. You help us to build an open source email service that can challenge mainstream services such as Gmail and Outlook.

Any encryption backdoor would do more harm than good. BlueLeaks is proof of that.

2020-8-28 / First published: 2018-9-17

Any encryption backdoor would do more harm than good. BlueLeaks is proof of that.

Politicians regularly demand that companies add encryption backdoors to their end-to-end encrypted email and cloud services to enable law enforcement to easier prosecute criminals. To the contrary, the recent leak of highly sensitive police documents, called BlueLeaks, demonstrates that we need better and more encryption, not less. By demanding to break encryption, Politicians are not asking us to choose between security and privacy. They are asking us to choose no security. This post explains why any encryption backdoor is - and will always be - a stupid idea.

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