Adventures in the real deep state

Why security officials keep using the Signal app despite risks

While Signal is now considered one of the best encrypted apps on the market, its real appeal is that it is far easier to use than the current classified government systems. Those government systems have failed, critics say, to evolve with the technological times – a bipartisan point of frustration.

And its other real appeal is enabling users to evade federal laws about record retention and, somewhat ironically, transparency. 

There are two kinds of classified information in the present system. One kind is critical to national security, the other kind is critical only to the security of politicians and bureaucrats. The Wizard had nothing on these guys when it comes to maintaining the illusion of omnipotence by operating behind a thick curtain of secrecy.

The real deep state is the state behind that curtain.