Move over, there's plenty of room on Putin's naughty step
Fresh from last week's controversy with a US telco, German secure email biz Tutanota has declared today that the Russian authorities have pulled the plug on its services.
Russia's move appears to be a continuation of domestic policy aimed at shutting out foreign-owned services that it cannot control or influence.
In a statement announcing the block, Tutanota co-founder Matthias Pfau lamented the spread of "censorship" online.
"We condemn the blocking of Tutanota. It is a form of censorship of Russian citizens who are now deprived of yet another secure communication channel online. At Tutanota we fight for our users' right to privacy online, also, and particularly, in authoritarian countries such as Russia and Egypt."
Tutanota reckoned that VPNs and Tor still worked as a means of accessing the site ..
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