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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
Something sounds off here. Maybe the RCMP had a backdoor or a warrant or something into tutanota but it’s not a storefront like the article says.
“A spokesperson for Tutanota, now Tuta, denied the claims. “[Tuta] is not owned or operated by any secret service, nor is it a ‘storefront’ as claimed by Cameron Ortis,””
Why not?