People will tell you that everything is a honeypot. In fact, I am a honeypot

It’s obviously not impossible, but you’ll find people calling every single private messaging platform honeypots. I don’t recall seeing any convincing proof for Tuta, personally.

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Tuta has already been through some cases linked to German court orders to decrypt emails received in the inbox of alleged criminals, just like any other company that is subject to the legislation of its respective country (I don’t know the difference with Proton, which until now I only found out about the delivery of IPs, not the content of the emails themselves, based on Swiss court orders), but I don’t believe it is a honeypot because Tuta has clarified the entire issue and still has credibility in the privacy community.

It’s actually a good question and you’re getting a lot of shit for it from people who seem to not even know where this accusation comes from.

https://tuta.com/blog/tutanota-not-a-honeypot

“So, I was briefed on a storefront that was being created or had been created in order to attract targets – criminal targets to this online encrypted service that was being created, in order for them to – the criminals or the targets to use this service in order for intelligence to be collected by the agency that created the storefront. … It’s an online end-to-end encryption service called Tutanota.”

It can be a lie, a mistake, or truth. It can even be a false flag accusation to destroy their reputation. We don’t really know.

When looking into this it’s good to also know about Tor Mail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_Mail
There might have been some confusion between Tutanota and Tor Mail.

I don’t think anybody here will be able to actually answer it.

No, a teapot, and Bertrand Russell wants a word…

tuta is legit. there are many dumb people on the internet telling dumb things