Is "sovereign washing" the new "privacy washing"?
Microsoft, Google, and AWS recently published “sovereign clouds”.
❌ BUT digital sovereignty doesn’t come from shiny new product names such as these “sovereign clouds” - which still must hand out data to US without a warrant based on the CLOUD Act and FISA.
✅ Digital sovereignty comes from full European legal and technical control. Everything else is nothing more than sovereign washing.
@Tutanota what is their selling point anyway?
EDIT: sorry, it's in the article that i haven't actually read before commenting.
@Tutanota Created a free account to play with the android app (I did have one ages ago, but it got deleted due to inactivity so shouldn't be breaking the 1 free account rule)
Android app synced contacts, need to check I can export/import calendar.
I think the reason I ended up not going with tuta last time was the lack of import (which you now have) but i need to check.
@Tutanota If I did decide to use tuna I'd probably go for Revolutionary, outside the initial import, as I'd be coming from a 10GB Zoho mailbox.
At the moment I use active sync/nine folders for the phone rather than the zoho app.
That said the tuta app looks ok so as long as the contacts integration works nicely and the calendar notifications do. i'd consider switching.
@Tutanota Yeh I just moved my domain over, had an issue with a + address not working but I think It just took a while for the alias to create.
I have a couple logins elsewher ethat use + addressing (which zoho just supported) looks like they DO work on tuta if you have either a catchall or create them explicitly.
Thankfully I didn't use + addressing much e.g me+service@mydomain.
@Tutanota Ah I think thats just ones that came from skiff originally (who's export feature was crap and rushed after they decided to shutdown)
So probably either something about the messages or them being archived in zoho
Doesn't matter so much as it's only very old stuff, was worried it was everything
@Tutanota while I get the "don't use American Cloud's Europe-compliant offerings" this blog post is taking about. There is a much darker side to this story.
How could a user vet a truly European company, who might under the hood use these American sovereignty offerings? It feels basically impossible to validate.
Like qwant and duckduckgo pretend to on your side.
@Tutanota
Ok. So why are you using Amazon nameservers for your tuta.com domain? Check: https://en.internet.nl/site/tuta.com/3332849/#control-panel-0
Seems about time to switch to a EU-based DNS provider :-) For options see: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/managed-dns-providers
@bartknubben Actually, we used to use a small German provider, but had to switch because they could not defend adequately against attacks, see here: https://tuta.com/blog/ddos-dns-attack
We don't like having to use AWS, but for the domain, we must use something big as for some reason we're a high-profile target for attacks. 🤔
What alternatives would you suggest (we'd love to switch to something better!)?
@Tutanota
There are certainly EU anycast DNS providers that could fix this for you. Might also be a good idea to use two of them. See for example:
- https://www.cloudns.net/
- https://www.rcodezero.at/en
- https://www.netnod.se/dns
See further: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/managed-dns-providers
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