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Email encryption - a term barely known ten years ago - is becoming mainstream thanks to automatically encrypted services like Tutanota. We welcome this development as it makes the web much more secure for so many people. Yet, now that many people choose to encrypt their emails, governments worldwide try to crack down on encryption, which is a severe threat to freedom and democracy.

We are happy to celebrate seven years of open source with you! Seven years ago, we have published the Tutanota web client as open source. We believe that open source, transparency and security go hand in hand. To guarantee full privacy we need all three because only with open source clients, security experts can check that we truly encrypt all your data the way we promise you to do!

Security specialist company Wiz discovered a vulnerability in the Microsoft Azure infrastructure that enabled them to access, modify and delete data of thousands of Azure customers. Described as the "the worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine", the security company was able to get access to any customer database that they wanted. This vulnerability is proof that data when stored in the cloud must be protected with end-to-end encryption at all times.

This fall, Apple is planning to release iOS 15 which will begin scanning your devices and iCloud for known images depicting the sexual abuse of minors. Apple is attempting to assuage the public and claims that these features will scan personal devices and cloud storage “while designing for user privacy.” Is this yet another case of invasive surveillance hidden under the guise of protecting the children or is Apple attempting to walk the fine line between preventing the spread of abusive material and protecting user privacy?

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it's another piece of surveillance software. This week we have been exposed to the Pegasus scandal. Pegasus is a piece of malware, publicly advertised and sold by the NSO Group that can infect mobile devices with little to no action required by the phone owner. The extensive eavesdropping made possible by Pegasus violates multiple laws. Thus, selling such tool must be banned - just like the trade in nuclear weapons is banned.