Protecting Investigative Journalists in the Face of Digital Surveillance

Who?

Journalists and their essential team member(s) can apply for a 3-month free license to use ChatMail on Renati - a minimum of two users per individual or up to 10 users per Media organization. To participate in this program, we do request your name, email address, and for the purposes of vetting your authenticity, we require a link to a recent article and your primary social handle. When you install Renati, you won’t need to disclose any personal information, and you’ll create your own passwords.

You can choose one of five Human Rights NGOs you would like Myntex® to donate $100 CAD to during signup. Donations will be made on or before Dec. 31, 2023.

• Amnesty.ca: A movement of 10 million advocates, campaigners, hackers, researchers, and technologists defending our rights in the digital age.
• Citizen Lab: An interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on communication technologies, human rights, and global security.
• Forbidden Stories: A non-profit project that helps stories reach the public when journalists are facing threats, prison or murder all over the world.
• International Center for Journalists: Supporting journalists to expose corruption and abuse and ensure the truth prevails.
• Reporters without Borders: A worldwide coalition supporting initiatives for the creation of a Special Representative to the United Nations Secretary General for the safety of journalists.

What?

Installation of Renati requires you to provide your own OEM unlocked Pixel phone. Compatible OEM unlocked phones include: 3a, 3a XL, 4a, 4XL, 6a, 6, and 6 Pro. Pixel phones sold by Verizon are incompatible. To confirm your device can be unlocked, navigate to Settings -> System -> Developer Options -> Select and enable OEM Unlocking. For connection you can use Wi-Fi or purchase a data only plan.

Where?

As a Canadian company, we are not allowed to export encryption to these countries.

Afghanistan
Belarus
Burma
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
China
Crimea
Cuba
Democratic Republic of the Congo
East Timor
Equatorial Guinea
Haiti
Iran
Iraq
Ivory Coast
Lebanon
Libya
Myanmar
Nicaragua
North Korea
Russia
Somalia
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Syria
Ukraine
Venezuela
Yemen
Zimbabwe

When?

The program offer will continue until all 200 free licenses have been claimed or until December 31, 2023—whichever comes first. The 3-month subscription will begin upon installation, regardless of usage.

Why?

You know the risks facing journalists today and we know the offerings that are out there. Having a chance to use ChatMail on Renati will let you experience a fully locked-down, secure solution.

We are a small business looking to make a big difference in the world by sharing our technology. We’re concerned about threats to encryption, backdoor mandates and the spyware threats towards journalists.

We want journalists to experience our product and while we cannot provide you with indefinite protection of your mobile communications for free, hopefully, we will help you to understand the importance of a fully locked-down solution.

We believe word of mouth is powerful and that organic recommendations, with no obligation attached are more authentic. If you find value in our product and would like to share your thoughts, we'd appreciate it. Additionally, if you ever wish to arrange an interview with Myntex CEO, Geoff Green, or seek insights on security, privacy, and encryption topics, we're here to assist. At the conclusion of your trial, we plan to offer an incentive of appreciation as a gesture of our gratitude.

Our private data center has been operating for 13 years in Canada - where there is greater digital privacy freedom than in most other countries. We have never been breached and manage our infrastructure on-site. Radware DDoS protection guarantees 99.99% uptime.

Renati is re-engineered to enhance the security of the Android Operating System Project. Updates and patches come direct from Myntex, with no third-party interference. Renati OS implements Android Verified Boot and with the highly secure nature of our product, typical attack vectors are non-existent.

To prove the integrity of our device hardening and encryption protocols, ChatMail on Renati was given to a Mobile Forensic Testing company to try to infiltrate the device and extract data. Even with the device password provided, the examiners could not extract any user-generated data. Read the Executive Summary Report.

When you purchase a Pixel device and install Renati OS, Renati overwrites all the partitions, so there’s no risk of malware. If you are shipping one of your Renati pre-installed devices to your contact, ADB and USB Signaling is fully disabled. There is no way to connect another tool to the device to infect or extract data. And even if there is an attempt to bypass Renati’s protection, such as a push into an unlocked state, Renati detects this and sends itself into a self-destruction erase loop.

While these apps can enhance your mobile privacy and help you escape from a lot of the user tracking synonymous with mobile devices – it is important to recognize that merely adding them as apps to your smartphone cannot provide comprehensive protection. It’s what we call a ‘privacy-first’ solution, where the user has some control over how their data is being collected and used.

With the above apps, your messages are encrypted in transit (End-to-End) but not at rest. Your messages can be extracted physically using commercially available forensic tools, or your conversations watched in real time using spyware like Pegasus or popular exploits.

ChatMail on Renati takes your privacy a big step further by being a ‘security-first’ solution. In addition to removing data collection and user monitoring, it’s focused on protecting your information from deliberate and complex attacks, even if a third party has managed to get ahold of your physical phone without your permission. We’ve hardened all aspects of the operating system and communication protocols so that you’re secure against targeted efforts to compromise your specific data.

Given the nature of our platform and our commitment to user privacy, we do not publicly disclose our clients. What we can tell you is that over 13 years, 45 thousand individuals and organizations across various industries have trusted us with their secure communications.

Yes. Myntex® was an authorized reseller of EncroChat software licenses and we sold them wholesale to our partner distribution network. When EncroChat was sold in 2016, our contract ended. Our contract was with the original owner of EncroChat. It ended 3-years before the investigation took place under the new ownership.

Transparency and security, at all costs, is our business principle.

Myntex believes everyone has the right to privacy and is revolutionizing the way our global clientele interacts with secure applications. Amidst 13 years in the secure communications industry, we've observed its shadows: platforms with lofty claims vanishing, faceless entities, inflated prices for free projects, and impractical features touted. Our transparency and unwavering commitment to user privacy, avoiding fads, defines our no-compromise approach.

Security at this level requires investment, offering a security product with this level of customization takes time and resources. "Lack of warranty. Open-source software does not come with any warranties as to its security, support, or content. Although many projects are supported, they are done so by volunteers and the development of them can be dropped without notice." Quote from Google.

Everyone likes to talk about decentralized cloud infrastructure, which does have some benefits. At the end of the day, though, this may not meet your elevated security needs, as you still would never know who has access to it. Our in-house Data Centre is privately managed and secure with advanced security protections and restricted access.

BlackBerry UEM is a great product, and we self host the instance in our private data center to ensure full control. UEM offers a wider variety of device models, and we will continue to offer them as we are proud certified BlackBerry MSSP Partners.

We developed our own OS in order to offer our clients certain customizations and stronger restrictions than UEM can offer at this time.