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Cameron Ortis, ex-RCMP official guilty of leaking secrets, sentenced to 14 years in prison

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cameron-ortis-sentencing-1.7105127

Tuta Wrongly Accused Of Being A Front For Intelligence Services

A German encrypted email service has denied claims by a former Canadian police intelligence officer under trial for selling sensitive secrets to criminals that it acted as a “storefront” for law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

Cameron Ortis, a former Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) intelligence officer, who is charged with allegedly passing on sensitive operational information, claimed in a court hearing that the email service, Tutanota, was lined up to collect
intelligence on organised criminals.

The claims were categorically denied by the encrypted email provider, now renamed Tuta, which said the allegations were “completely false”.

“Tutanota and Tuta has never and will never operate a ‘storefront’ for any intelligence or law enforcement agency. This would completely contradict our mission as a privacy protection organisation,” the company said in a statement.
Storefront aimed to attract criminals

In court transcripts released on Friday 10 November, Ortis testified that he had been approached by a counterpart at a foreign intelligence agency with information about an encrypted messaging service that was being used as a “storefront” for
intelligence agencies.

He told the court in Ottawa that a storefront was a fake business, either online or bricks and mortar, covertly set up by an intelligence or law enforcement agency.

“The common goal is to attract criminals or targets of different kinds of investigations to that storefront in order for them to engage in their services,” Ortis told the court.

Ortis, former director general of RCMP’s National Intelligence, told the court that he was approached by his counterpart at a foreign agency in autumn 2014.

He said he was briefed that a storefront was being set up to attract targets to an online encrypted email service, Tutanota, to gather intelligence.

He said the foreign agency would be able to feed the intelligence, including intercepted emails, through the Five Eyes intelligence network – a collaboration between the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – back to the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police.

The information that would be gathered was compelling and demonstrated clearly a direct and grave threat, he said.

“I could corroborate much of the information by looking at existing OR [Operation Research] files and RCMP holdings,” he said in the hearing on 3 November. “I was given a strict caveat not to share the information with anyone,” he added.
No basis for claims

Tuta, formerly known as Tutanota, said there was no basis for Ortis’s claims. The company said its entire source code is published on GitHub, and can be peer reviewed to ensure there are no hidden backdoors in Tuta’s end-to-end encryption.

According to Tuta’s transparency report, the company only responds to court orders issued by German courts.

It publishes a “warrant canary” confirming that its services have not been subjected to an order from the US National Security Agency and that its encryption has not been subject to any backdoors.

Tuta has received orders from German courts to hand over inventory data, which can include banking data, credit card data and PayPal usernames, and real-time metadata, which can include the email addresses of the sender and receiver of emails, and the
time messages were sent, but not the content.

The email service has also been ordered to disclose encrypted emails, however Tuta points out that it does not have access to decryption keys and is unable to handover decrypted messages.

“The key is encrypted with the user’s password. We never know the password as only a hash of the password is transmitted to the server. Thus, we cannot know the decryption key,” said Tuta spokesperson Hanna Bozakov.


https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366559333/Encrypted-mail-service-Tuta-says-it-was-wrongly-accused-of-being-a-front-for-intelligence-services

https://restoreprivacy.com/tuta-refutes-allegations-of-it-being-a-front-for-spy-agencies/

https://cybernoz.com/encrypted-mail-service-tuta-says-it-was-wrongly-accused-of-being-a-front-for-intelligence-services/

https://technoversepro.com/internet-technology/encrypted-mail-service-tuta-says-it-was-wrongly-accused-of-being-a-front-for-intelligence-services-computer-weekly/

It just proves the point that "D" is one of Ortis's comrades!
I've said it before and I'll say it again "D" is a FED!
"D" knows Tuta is rock solid and that's why he's afraid you use it"
Remember "D" wants you to send unencrypted email. Ha Ha Ha

Remember this...

"D" is trying to jail you and is gently sweet talking you by advocating sending unencrypted email.

You messed up big time "D" by telling folks to send unencrypted posts!

"D" advocates sending unencrypted posts in the following link
14th post down...

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.privacy.anon-server/c/BFPHSor4yNs

NEVER SEND ANYTHING UNENCRYPTED!!!

"D" may not be what you think, possibly not one person but a bunch of feds lurking
in here. Don't think for one minute the feds or cia are not here, they're here alright. Only feds would advocate sending unencrypted posts to newsgroups!

DON'T GET FRIENDLY OR TRUST ANYONE HERE, THIS IS NOT A DATING SITE!

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