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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

you still cannot verify that that’s the code running on their servers

This is why end-to-end encryption is paramount. You could be using Gmail as your provider for all I care as long as your messages are GPG-encrypted. Even if you trust the server-side completely (e.g. self-hosted), it's still better to encrypt wherever possible, since it reduces attack surface.