The only meaningful use case for privacy tools is to use them to organize to create enough influence that you can reduce the need for privacy tools. If you aren't doing that, the tools are just tolerated by govts because they neutralize your resistance and explicitly enable mass surveillance, imo.
How many Signal users are there, and why aren't there enough of us to drive the political agenda? One big problem with most privacy tools is they don't name their threat actor (it's your own governments), and using the tools doesn't translate to a vote for anyone who will do something about the problem. On top of it all, installing these tools acts as a reliable political metric for popular intelligence community approval.
How many Signal users are there, and why aren't there enough of us to drive the political agenda? One big problem with most privacy tools is they don't name their threat actor (it's your own governments), and using the tools doesn't translate to a vote for anyone who will do something about the problem. On top of it all, installing these tools acts as a reliable political metric for popular intelligence community approval.