Signal is less willing to compromise the privacy of their users than Reid Blackman would be if he was in charge. Therefore, Signal’s views are “coarsegrained”. How is “data sitting on a server which no-one looks at” surveillance? Somehow both this and the awkward Stasi reference made it in. /3

Individual privacy is really dangerous, according to Reid Blackman, because criminals might abuse it. We must make sure that criminals can’t evade the government using Signal. As proof, he gives a single example of some criminals who used Signal but failed to evade the government. /2

I didn’t go looking for a pile of poorly structured garbage but somehow I stumbled across this NY Times article by Reid Blackman about how Signal is dangerously obsessed with privacy and we should probably just trust the government to read our messages just in case we’re doing bad things. /1