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[Discussion] Which privacy apps / services do you think are most likely US government honeypots? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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IE like Crypto AG:

In 2020, it was revealed that the Swiss company, Crypto AG, which provided secure communications services to ~120 governments throughout the 20th century, was secretly ran by the CIA and West German Intelligence. The CIA and later NSA were able to read encrypted communications for many countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Italy, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Jordan and South Korea.

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[–] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

i don't think anyone here considers it a private service at all, but i'm almost certain cloudflare is a honeypot

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Why are you so certain?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    the biggest part is they're doing way too much of the internet while being quite opaque. and their service is "too generous", with free tiers, no ads. and the whole MITMing every traffic and serving from CDN architecture seems ideal for a honeypot to me.

    even if cloudflare themselves don't intend to be one, i'm pretty sure some three letter agency has backdoors to their systems.

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