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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.

Tutanota (now Tuta) denies this: https://tuta.com/blog/tutanota-not-a-honeypot

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@Saki @tusker @Tutanota

This gosssip circus is a top-notch advertising campaign, free of charge. You could not have ever hoped to pay gold doubloons for such advertising. The Internet hive mind says, 'gratis'.