Very proud of the decision by @Tutanota to be no longer listed on the copperhead OS webpage once they heard about the history of the company. I wish more companies were vigilant like this. Way to go guys!
@blacklight447 @Tutanota Care to share a tl;dr? I'm curious.
@tapaniraja @Tutanota 1/ Copperhead listed tutanota on their partner page, which gives them legitimacy as tutanota has a good reputation. Thing is, tutanota never had a partnership, all that happend was that tutanota was asked by copperhead to use their logo as they come with copperhead pre installed, to which tutanota had no objections.
@tapaniraja @Tutanota 2/ the thing is, copperhead os is currently a shell company run by a scammer who kicked out daniel micay via a hostile takeover. Now, we ofcourse don't want to endanger users into buying these insecure phones. The problem comes in when a legitimate company like tutanota is seemingly supporting them.
@tapaniraja @Tutanota 3/ now when i reached out to tutanota, they clarified they never had an actual partnership at all, eventhough they were listed like that on the website. So i explained the situation of what happend with copperhead, which tutanota was seemingly unaware off, and they notified me today they day have now asked copperhead to remove their logo from their site, which is a move i applaud them for!
@tapaniraja @Tutanota after we posted it on reddit, wire suddenly removed their blog post about it ( click the link on their socialmedia about it, brings up an error.)
Ive also just reached out to nextcloud. Seeing how i cannot find ANYTHING about copperhead on their website or social media, im guessing the same happend to them as tutanota, its just a said attempt by James Donaldson to harm users by pushing his scam by using logo's from legitimate companies.
@blacklight447 @Tutanota Just found the Reddit thread and Daniel's tweets. Crazy shit.
@tapaniraja @Tutanota yeah, its crazy, donaldson must be stopped. Spread the word!
@blacklight447 @Tutanota This is why I like Tutanota. Wondering if Nextcloud and Wire are in a similar situation...Sounds quite shady way of getting "partners" and build trust.