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_vere | 8 months ago

I wish they weren't sued into providing a backdoor for the German government, I vastly prefer their corporate structure to proton, but I cant really trust to use a "encrypted" service with a government backdoor.

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tuyeron|8 months ago

Proof? There is no backdoor in Tuta, the code is here: https://github.com/tutao/tutanota

_vere|8 months ago

There was a court case here a while ago because the feds wanted access to someone's emails. They won the case and forced tuta to build them a way into their system that allows them to get at non end to end encrypted emails before they get at-rest-encrypted. German article https://www.heise.de/news/Gericht-zwingt-Mailprovider-Tutano... English article about the same topic https://hackread.com/encrypted-email-provider-tutanota-backd... This essentially means they are forced to save a copy of the non encrypted emails somewhere, at least for german customers. You can argue its not a "backdoor" in the typical sense, since end to end encryption is still in place, but like, come on