On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 22:54:58 +0100, immibis <
ne...@immibis.com> wrote:
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>do so. (And you will go to jail for it)
that's exactly what the tutanota advertisers have been saying all along
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5016fb3714896903...@dizum.com> "you're all going to jail"
(using Tor Browser 13.0.9)
https://gizmodo.com/tuta-email-denies-connection-to-intelligence-services-1851022465
>Encrypted Email Service Tuta Denies It's a 'Honeypot' for Five Eyes
>Intelligence
>For years, Tutanota (which recently rebranded to "Tuta") has been a trusted
>email provider. A former Canadian cop has accused it of being a honeypot.
>By Lucas Ropek
>Published November 15, 2023 | Comments (1)
>Photo: Mehaniq (Shutterstock)
>There are only a handful of trusted end-to-end encrypted email providers.
>Of those, Tuta (which has long been known as "Tutanota" but recently
>rebranded ) is one of the more well-known. This week, the company found
>itself on the defensive after being labeled a "front" for law enforcement
>and intelligence services. In an attempt to clear its name, the company
>released a statement denying that it's a honeypot operation, after a former,
>highly placed Canadian intelligence official alleged in court that was the
>case.
>The cop in question, Cameron Ortis, formerly ran a "highly secret unit"
>within the Royal Canadian Mountain Police, but is now on trial for allegedly
>having attempted to sell government intelligence to criminals, CBC reports.
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>Ortis has denied that he was actually attempting to sell state secrets. In
>his testimony, which was made public this week, Ortis instead said that he
>was involved in a special operation. As part of that operation, agents used
>Tuta, which he described as a "storefront"--or a kind of honeypot--to lure in
>prospective criminals for surveillance, he said. CBC describes the former
>government official's allegations like this:
>...according to Ortis, [another agent] briefed him about a "storefront"
>that was being created to attract criminal targets to an online encryption
>service. A storefront, said Ortis, is a fake business or entity, either
>online or bricks-and-mortar, set up by police or intelligence agencies. The
>plan, he said, was to have criminals use the storefront -- an online end-to-
>end encryption service called Tutanota -- to allow authorities to collect
>intelligence about them.
>"So if targets begin to use that service, the agency that's collecting that
>information would be able to feed it back, that information, into the Five
>Eyes system, and then back into the RCMP," Ortis claimed, in reference to
>the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance, of which Canada is a prominent
>member. Ortis has claimed that some unnamed Five Eyes foreign agent
>introduced him to the honeypot operation and that he didn't notify his
>superiors at the RCMP about it. Follow-up questions about the whole thing
>have mostly led him to say things like "I don't recall," and "that's
>something I can't talk about."
>Tuta has vehemently denied the allegations against it. In a blog post
>published Monday, the company stressed that there was no "backdoor" in its
>service and said that Ortis' allegations were a "complete and utter lie":
> This weekend Tutanota was called a "storefront" and a "honeypot" -
> without any evidence. Tutanota - or now Tuta - is the encrypted email
> service with a focus on privacy, open source and transparency. It is not
> linked to any secret service and there is no backdoor included. It is not
> even necessary to trust our words, as our entire client code is published
> so that anyone can verify that there is no backdoor.
>In its statement, Tuta added that it would be watching Ortis' "case with
>great interest" and that it was "actively working with...[its] legal team
>to fight" the "slanderous claims" that had been made against it.
>It should be pointed out that Tuta does host its client-side code on
>Github, though the company has never fully open-sourced its server-side
>code. The company has stated that this shouldn't matter since all of its
>encryption occurs on the client side, and that's what counts when it comes
>to user privacy.
>It's not clear what evidence (if any) Ortis has that Tutanota is a
>"storefront," as he's claimed. So far, he's provided none. The story is
>interesting, however, for its connection to a verified episode involving
>law enforcement's attempts to backdoor a well-known privacy service. One
>of the people that Ortis is accused of spilling government secrets to is
>Vincent Ramos, the former CEO of Phantom Secure--an encrypted phone company
>that police say frequently sold its devices to drug cartels and other crime
>syndicates. It was previously reported that the FBI once tried to force
>Ramos to install a backdoor into his software so that the agency could spy
>on Sinaloa Cartel members. Canadian law enforcement was notably involved in
>the investigation into Phantom Secure and Ramos and assisted with his
>arrest. In 2019, Ramos was sentenced to nine years in prison.
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