ItWasntMeProton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester
Chloé 🥕i don’t see this as “proton being the bad guy”, or them “betraying their userbase”, i see this as proton being fundamentally unable to offer the kinds of service they claim to offer
they’re a lot better than google or microsoft, for sure, but still not fully private. if you have any important privacy requirements, don’t rely on big commercial services. this goes to others like tutanota, too (in fact there’s credible evidence that tuta is a honeypot lol)
ramassesWhat evidence? I have never heard of this.
an RCMP intelligence official testified in court that it was a honeypot
That counterpart, according to Ortis, 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 said.
of course tuta replied, with their reply basically being “no we’re not, you have no proof”. so.
Alleged RCMP leaker says he was tipped off that police targets had 'moles' in law enforcement | CBC News
Cameron Ortis, the former RCMP intelligence official on trial in Ottawa, said he was tipped off by a counterpart at a "foreign agency" that the people he's accused of leaking secrets to had "moles" inside Canadian police services.