Tutanota is the go-to app for secure emails: With built-in encryption all data is protected, & no one but the intended recipient can read your emails – even the Tutanota developers have no access. Launched in March 2014, Tutanota now has more than 2 million users. Matthias Pfau explains why secure communications are so important in times of all-round surveillance, & how his startup is making a difference.
In theory everybody knows that an email is like a postcard: Everybody can read it. Yet, most people put really sensitive information – like banking details, social security numbers, medical issues – into their emails. For some reason, possibly because it is being delivered electronically & not by the hands of a postman, they believe no one will read the information.
Unfortunately, they are wrong. As developers we understand how all information that is available Online is being gathered, scanned, & read – either by malicious attackers who want to steal your identity or access your Online accounts, or by Secret Services, & we are not only speaking about the NSA here.
We have a vision of the Internet where the spies have no access at all. This will happen once services & apps secure their users data with encryption. This is why we need Tutanota: We are building the easiest encrypted mailbox that everybody can use – without any IT knowledge whatsoever.
Only by enabling people to use a secure way of communicating, they can start to protect their sensitive information. With Tutanota they don’t even have to think about whether they want to protect their emails or not, everything is encrypted by default. If they want to send end-to-end encrypted emails easily, we recommend that both sides use Tutanota as the encryption process then is fully automated. If the other person chooses to stay with his old provider like Gmail or Yahoo, they can exchange a password for the encryption/decryption process.
Since Tutanota is as easy to use as any other email provider, more & more people make the switch because of the security they get with it. To date, we have more than 2 million users around the globe, with around 200.000 new users joining every month. Our growth is highest in the United States & in Europe. We are excited about this growth because it means people start to understand the importance of privacy Online & why it is necessary to protect their private communication.
We believe this is just the beginning & that the future Internet will be much more secure for all of us. That’s also why we plan to add an encrypted address book, encrypted Cloud storage & much more to Tutanota in the future.
The Tutanota Team
As the makers of Tutanota we see ourselves not as typical entrepreneurs, but more as Internet activists. We want to enable people to stop mass surveillance, & to change the Internet for the better bit by bit. It is great fun to work with such an amazing & dedicated team on something that you really care for. Everybody knows that building a startup is not only fun, but also hard work. It helps a lot when you have a clear vision of what you want to achieve, not just for your startup & your team, but also for the society in general. Today we are very proud that over2 million users already help us to stop the spies on the Internet. We are certain that this is only the beginning because the privacy era has only just started!
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/privacy-era-has-started
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