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title: Privacy is OK
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date: 2022-12-29
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featureImage: images/blog/surveillance.png
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author: Cincinnatus
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authorThumb: /images/author/cincinnatus.jpg
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## Tim Bray wants to defend Signal
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This is really about whether "bad guys" can use Signal. Tim, rightly, says "who cares". We all need privacy.
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https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/29/Privacy-is-OK
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But then Tim admits Signal can and does hand over conversations to those with subpoena powers:
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>in the course of the law-enforcement investigation of the January 6th insurrection, police got access to the traitors’ Signal conversations
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Hmmm. OK. We don't want to wade into "traitors". Just to point out, if someone thinks your conversation deserves unmasking, and they can get a subpoena, it will be unmasked. That's the power of the *centralizers*.
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