> The main element pointing to Russia is the timeline of the events.

I didn't realize the bar for "debunking" had become so low.

The whole basis of Vice debunk is "Nobody heard of a Guccifer 2.0 persona before", which is not exactly strong evidence for anything.

Particularly considering Guccifer is a real person and referencing other hackers not that unheard of.

According to https://www.srcbeat.com/2021/01/solarleaks/ their email sent to solarleaks@protonmail.com bounced back with "Address does not exist" error.

I was about to check if I could register it, but then thought that might be a bad idea.

Lol. Proton mail has strong encryption and is hosted in one of the most strongest jurisdictions in the world as regards privacy laws. Nothing to worry about :)

Tutanota on the other hand lost a court battle in Germany and had to give up email data from one of their suspected-to-be-criminal clients [0]

0:https://www.cyberscoop.com/germany-court-ruling-tutanota-ema...