Secure email service Tutanota complains it is being blocked by AT&T in parts of the United States

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Secure email service Tutanota is being blocked by AT&T in parts of the United States

Some US users of the Tutanota have been unable to access the secure email service while out and about on their smartphones since the end of January.

Other US users have no such difficulties.

So what links the users who can’t access their encrypted Tutanota mailbox over a mobile connection? They all rely upon AT&T for their internet connection.

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At first, AT&T appeared to be investigating the problem.

But it still hasn’t been fixed. And that’s a big problem – both for Tutanota’s users and for Tutanota itself.

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A blog post about the issue on Tutanota’s website doesn’t mince its words:

“Such outages demonstrate how much power ISPs are having over our online experience, and it is shocking. If ISPs can block access to certain websites or services, they control the Internet. It would be naive to believe that American ISPs will not use this power. Without net neutrality ISPs can – and will – ask for extra fees.”

Tutanota wants its supporters to join the fight for net neutrality.

Users of AT&T mobile who are unable to access Tutanota are advised to try using a VPN or the Tor browser to evade the block.

Just last month, ProtonMail and StartMail were in the headlines after Russia blocked access to the encrypted email services.

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Graham Cluley is a veteran of the cybersecurity industry, having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of cybersecurity, hackers, and online privacy. Follow him on Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky, or drop him an email.

One comment on “Secure email service Tutanota complains it is being blocked by AT&T in parts of the United States”

  1. Pete Austin

    Or use wifi and a DNS setting such as 1.1.1.1 ?

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