Ove @ovelarsen@mastodon.social

Those who oppose #EndToEndEncryption oppose privacy, human rights, personhood, and democracy.

They are not your friends.

They are the ones who want what the Stasi never had: eyes and ears on everyone, all the time.

You lose this battle, you lose it all.

Do you search Google? Or does Google search you? To keep your emails private, switch from Gmail to Tutanota now. 😀💪 Here we explain why Tutanota is a great Gmail alternative: https://tutanota.com/gmail-alternative/

We're celebrating six years of open source: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/tutanota-open-source 😀🥳 By publishing the client code as open source, others can verify that we protect your privacy with built-in encryption. We even use our own captcha & push to not depend on any Google service. 😀

#Facebook says it may quit Europe over ban on sharing data with US - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/sep/22/facebook-says-it-may-quit-europe-over-ban-on-sharing-data-with-us "enforcing the ban would leave the company unable to operate": what total rubbish, as they and we know. just keep your data in the EU, Zuckerberg, is that so hard to understand?

We are very sorry about this ongoing outage. We are working on fixing this. While someone wants to stop you from using encrypted emails, we are committed to not let that happen. Thank you very much for your patience and for weathering this storm with us.

There's another DDoS attack. We are already working on mitigating this. Please check the status here: https://status.tutanota.com/

Tutanota keeps being attacked - now we must fight for our right to privacy.
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/ddos-attack-tutanota

To support us, please upgrade your account or donate: https://tutanota.com/community#donate 🙏♥️

As Danish Defence Intelligence Service is caught spying on Danes on behalf of the NSA, let's revisit our parliament's response from when the allegations first came up: https://information.dk/indland/2014/01/ingen-grund-antage

Sometimes all you can do is marvel in disgust at the utter incompetence on display.

Hi everyone, we'd like to apologize for the downtime caused by another DDoS attack this weekend. Someone wants to hurt Tutanota and stop people from using secure emails. We're working hard to not let this happen! Downtime this weekend was already shorter than last, and we'll keep improving. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the downtime and thank you for your patience.
Here is some information from us that will answer lots of questions:
https://www.tutanota.com/blog/posts/update-ddos-attack/

Max Schrems files 101 complaints across 30 European countries to turbocharge #GDPR’s impact – and he’s not the only one - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/max-schrems-files-101-complaints-across-30-european-countries-to-turbocharge-gdprs-impact-and-hes-not-the-only-one/ count 'em... #privacy

What happened during the DDoS attack on Tutanota this weekend - answers to all your questions:
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/update-ddos-attack

Firefox market share vs Mozilla Foundation chair salary (2.5 million/year in 2018)

via https://twitter.com/withoutboats/status/1217558588857544704

EU Plans To Use Supercomputers To Break #Encryption, But Also Wants Platforms To 'Create Opportunities' To Snoop On End-To-End Communications - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200728/07235644992/eu-plans-to-use-supercomputers-to-break-encryption-also-wants-platforms-to-create-opportunities-to-snoop-end-to-end.shtml

If you’re a developer, you care about accessibility, and you’re looking for something to work on, consider helping out with Jitsi.

Reasons we can’t use it for EU events:

- No support for simultaneous translation
- No support for sign language interpretation
- Other #a11y issues

https://jitsi.org/

Judge suspends Dakota Access pipeline over environmental concerns - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/06/dakota-access-pipeline-environment-oil that's good

Senators Launch Full On Nuclear War Against Encryption: Bill Will Require Broken Encryption, Putting Everyone At Risk - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200623/17050744767/senators-launch-full-nuclear-war-against-encryption-bill-will-require-broken-encryption-putting-everyone-risk.shtml they never stop; madness

Is the Whonix project run by fascists? https://micahflee.com/2020/06/is-the-whonix-project-run-by-fascists/