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Court orders encrypted email biz Tutanota to build a backdoor in user’s mailbox, founder says ‘this is absurd’

Posted on December 10, 2020 by pogowasright.org

Here we go again? Will this be another LavaBit?

Gareth Corfield reports:

Tutanota has been served with a court order to backdoor its encrypted email service – a situation founder Matthias Pfau described to The Register as “absurd.”

Our friends at Heise reported auf Deutsch that a court in Germany last month ordered Tutanota to help investigators monitor the contents of a user’s encrypted mailbox. The site has until the end of the year to add functionality to perform this surveillance.

Read more on The Register.

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