Redact is a relatively popular tool for cleaning up people's post or message history on platforms like Slack or Discord. Recently I found out about some questionable statements made by Dan Saltman, better known as Redact's creator.
Most recent behavior
From two censored r/privacy posts, where we find the CEO pretending to know which tweets a customer deleted
The Redact dev recently recontextualized tweets of a streamer hasan. but then walked it back stating he wasnt a customer like the first tweet appeared. I didnt see that before, and the op really concerned me. I don't know if I could trust them to reccomend, like have they been trustworthy in the past? And are there any alternatives that are just-work in the least?
3 months ago
I don't trust that platform or the guy who runs it, Dan Saltman. He recently had multiple public meltdowns. At one point, he threatened to dox Twitch employees until he could get the CEO's attention. Then he doxxed someone's name and location on a public stream, and posted a picture of them as a minor.
4 months ago
From this r/privacy post
In what appears to be a now-deleted stream, Saltman threatens to dox people multiple times. He mentions Dan Clancy, the CEO of Twitch, and threatened to dox Clancy's employees.
Did you know that they hide, by the way? Because I have a list of all the employees in Trust and Safety, and half of them hide. Sometimes... there are people... and you can't get to them. no matter what level of insane targeting you do to them. Then you have to start going to the people that they care about, and then they start caring. but I'm guessing that Dan Clancy will care if his employees that are involved with trust and safety start getting named for being antisemitic people... they are responsible. I will set up a fucking website for every single one of these motherfuckers. And that's how you make change... you make change by making the person feel the pressure of what they've done. Not the company, but the man. That's how you make change. That's how we will make change.
He also seems he threatened doxxing if they delete messages in a particular Slack channel (one he wasn't a part of.)
This guy in red. I'm not going to identify him by name. and again, if anything happens to that Slack [chat], I will identify people.
This is especially notable because Slack is one of the services Saltman's app supports.
Based on this behavior, I feel very uncomfortable using or recommending Redact.
They say “necessity is the mother of invention,” and damn, this guy needs a service that will delete his tweets.