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[Discussion] Which privacy apps / services do you think are most likely US government honeypots? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml 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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[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They are perfect for torrenting though. The kind of activity 3 letter agencies don't want their spying to be disturbed for.

[–] GaumBeist@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

they benefit people who only don’t want their network-provider watching, but don’t care who else may be.

[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Just FYI: It's not the network provide we have to worry about in my country. That is specific to the USA I believe.

Here they have "headhunters" that make a contract with a rights holder, torrent a file, write down the IP of someone who uploads a video to them, then legally request the name to the IP and send an invoice for about $2000. No three warnings or anything. And they are very good at sending legal officials to impound any of your valuable stuff in case you don't pay.

Even other "illegal" activity like calling Israel an apartheid regime or supporting palestine or insulting your head of state might get you flagged by a three letter agency, but they won't use official legal channels. There is a protection of the herd with VPN.