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“Tutanota is a honeypot” during the court hearing: Tutanota retorts (www.cbc.ca)
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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 (1 children)

Someone also published the story on Reddit calling Tutanota a honeypot, which was removed by the moderators as fake news.

Well there we go. We have our answer. Someone who would put 100% faith in reddit moderators just to support their point is obviously lying.

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

The fact that they’re still using Reddit as their support forum is indeed disappointing. Deleting an unpleasant post just like that feels oppressive too. If it’s untrue but the concern is reasonable, then perhaps they should have tried to disprove it in an open discussion.

Objectively, though, I have no reason to believe (nor deny) this claim.