the criminal argument

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

“Very effective for online criminals too.”

That was the comment. Posted under a privacy stack, the kind of post that lists Signal instead of WhatsApp, GrapheneOS instead of stock Android, Proton instead of Gmail. Eight words, no elaboration needed, because the eight words weren’t really an argument. They were a verdict, delivered the way verdicts usually are online, confidently, finally, with nothing underneath it.

It deserves a real answer anyway, because it is one of the oldest objections in the privacy debate, the kind that gets the fact right every time and the conclusion wrong every time.

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the criminal argument