You wrong. Found curious information about Tutanota
Could you summarise what that article is talking about? Thereâs a popup that asks me to either pay money or be tracked, which is a great start for the website. All I can see easily is the headline that says something about Tuta being forced to have a surveillance function by law or something.
Asked PhinD to summarise the article:
Summary
The article from Heise News discusses a court ruling that forces email provider Tutanota to implement a surveillance function. Tutanota, like other email providers, encrypts all incoming emails by default. However, a judgment from the Cologne District Court obligates the company to install a feature that allows investigators to monitor individual mailboxes and read emails in plain text.
This case involves an extortion email sent from a Tutanota account to an auto parts supplier. As a result, Tutanota is compelled to develop a function that allows the North Rhine-Westphalia State Criminal Investigation Department to monitor this mailbox until the end of the year.
This development is significant because it deviates from the rulings of other courts. For instance, the Hanover District Court decided in the summer that Tutanota does not provide âtelecommunications servicesâ legally or contribute to them, and therefore cannot be obliged to participate in telecommunications surveillance. The Cologne court, however, sees Tutanota as a âcontributorâ to the provision of telecommunications services, hence the company must enable surveillance.
Despite the change, Tutanota plans to continue encrypting all emails by default for its users. However, the company views the ability to bypass encryption once as a potential data protection and security risk for all customers.
Hope this will help.
BTW extremely old article
Lawful interception isnât unique to eyes countries though is it, and in fact countries which are not a part of that group may very well put pressure on companies operating within their borders without any judicial oversight or request.
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There is no such thing from a single service. Also, as they found out, location doesnât matter.
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Which of the domain names on that page caters to racists?
They used to have racist domains, this may have changed recently:
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Because it is fully free, without any commercial functionality or ads
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They donât even have 2FA auth. About what security we are even talking?
2FA
This is covered in the help page.
Is there 2factor?
Ya 1 factorâs ur usernameâs the otherâs ur password
Hopefully your comment is meant sarcastically, but on the off chance that it isnât, that is definitely not two factorâŚ
It is really a problem for email as it usually holds access to other accounts. Only password for email looks not even unsecure, it looks completely open to wide vector of attacks (such as phishing or brute force, and some malware stealers)
Who could have thought this would happen!
Hot take: Email providers like Cock.li and Riseup donât really offer substantial benefits to most people over E2EE companies like Tuta and Proton. If you need to create anonymous accounts on fringe political fourms, perhaps they can be a better fit. But, I would much rather encourage email aliases instead of potentially insecure options for regular usage
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Iâve been using cyberfear as a primary email account for years now. I donât understand why they would be much different than Proton or Tuta.
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They arent. People just disagree with the providers on politics and evaluate them unfairly.
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Cyberfear doesnât even have a TLSA record: DANE SMTP Validator
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Are we not reading the same threat where cock.li was breached and leaked over 1 million user records and was able to give all information to the government - and its agreed that isnât safe to use? Whatâs the unfair evaluation there?
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Perfect timing to ask