Nyms were good back in the day but your average man or woman is not
going to get involved with all that 'old hat' nym stuff. Tuta is a
breeze to use and is the way forward.

Is Tuta certified?

Tuta was subject to an extensive penetration test by the SySS GmbH in
November 2013. During the tests the experts were not able to access
the system or to retrieve any confidential data.

Is Tuta open source?

Yes, all Tuta clients are published as open source under GPLv3. Check
out our GitHub repository. We welcome you to review the code, to give
us feedback or to contribute!

https://tuta.com/support/general

Encrypted emails, calendars & contacts

Tuta is the go-to service to securely store your data in the cloud.
Its built-in encryption makes sure that your data stays secure, no
matter what. Your encryption key belongs to you, and to you alone.
It is never shared with anyone else, not even with Tuta.

Tuta is the world's most secure email service because we protect your
data at all ends. Whether on our servers, or on your devices: In Tuta
all data is always end-to-end encrypted.

The entire mailbox – emails, calendar and address book – are stored
end-to-end encrypted in Tuta. The only unencrypted data are mail
addresses of users as well as senders and recipients of emails. Upon
entering your login credentials, your mailbox is automatically
decrypted locally on your device.

https://tuta.com/encryption

Open source guarantees security

Our choice to publish the entire client code on GitHub for all Tuta
apps – Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and web clients – means
that anyone can audit the code and verify that Tuta protects the
security and privacy of your data to the maximum. It’s a guarantee
that there is no backdoor in the end-to-end encryption. It also
means that any bugs or even potential vulnerabilities get noticed
quickly and we’re able to fix them much faster than closed-source
email providers.

Before the public release of Tuta, all our apps have been audited by
independent security experts. In an extensive penetration test,
experts from SySS GmbH have not been able to hack into our system
or retrieve any encrypted data. But it’s even better to have as
many layers of protection as possible when it comes to your data
privacy and security.
Published as GPLv3

For these reasons it was also crucial for us to publish the entire
client code for Tuta under GPLv3 as free software. What is more, we
even built our own captcha and push notification service, in order
to make sure that the software is free. And, we don’t need to rely
on integrating with any closed-source third-party services, for
instance by using Google Push. This is part of what makes Tuta the
most secure email service in the world.

https://tuta.com/open-source

Why do you need more email security?

Are you finding yourself targeted by oddly specific ads and wondering
how on earth did they know to show me that?”. If you are
privacy-savvy, you’ve probably found yourself having to disable
permissions again and again in your device’s privacy and security
settings, after a system update, even though your operating system
doesn’t have a problem retaining other types of data during the
updating process. It’s obvious: your activity is being tracked
intentionally. From your operating system, to your browser, to sites
and apps that you use and user accounts that you need to create on
many of these, at every step there is data collected about you. Some
of it is meant to improve the functionality of these services. A lot
of it is meant to make it easier for companies to market to you.
Tracking via Gmail

Additionally, the types of activity that Google tracks is even more
encompassing across devices and operating systems when you have a
Gmail address and you use it to create accounts for various services
- even if you’re not using Google’s Chrome browser. Are you getting
email newsletters, special offers or political fundraising calls that
you never signed up for? This is a given, whether you’re using a
social platform, shopping online, signing a petition, donating to a
cause you care about or signing up for a different newsletter that
you’re actually interested in, or any other activity that requires
you to provide an email address.

People who are less tech-savvy or part of age groups with less
experience navigating the internet tend to leave even more
breadcrumbs and are usually more susceptible to ads, fake news and
other types of manipulation. It’s not just commercial messaging that
targets you based on your digital profile, but even news and
entertainment content. This digital profile is put together from
data gathered by most of the tech companies whose products you use
and then sold to and by data brokers.

Data brokers include credit reporting companies, people-finding
websites, and many analytics and marketing companies. They operate
in a sprawling, unregulated ecosystem and are rightfully being
called "the middlemen of surveillance capitalism". They’re a
multi-billion dollar industry with a lack of transparency and
accountability, with an FTC report concluding that they "collect
consumers’ personal information and resell or share that information
with others". But the fact that it’s a well-known problem doesn’t
make it easy to regulate away, with Big Tech companies opposing
anti-trust legislation, even by posing as grass-roots groups.

Create a secure email account with Tuta - as your primary email and
for your user profiles on apps and sites - and you will make it more
difficult for data brokers to aggregate data about you. What’s more,
the alias feature included with all our paid accounts helps you
quickly deactivate alias email addresses that start getting unwanted
emails.

Just like with social media platforms, with most email services free
email isn’t really free. You already know this because of the
cross-platform ads that you get served: Your attention is the product.

FREE and premium services available at...

https://tuta.com/

Stay safe, stay encrypted.

Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:

> Nyms were good back in the day but your average man or woman is not
> going to get involved with all that 'old hat' nym stuff. Tuta is a
> breeze to use and is the way forward.

Nyms = Privacy & Anonymity
Tuta = Surveillance