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[โ€“] RandomBit 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree; however, the second point I don't see as Signal specific. In any service, how do you verify that a server is running unmodified open source code? For the vast majority of people, they are also depending upon the client being unmodified.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you could run your own Signal instance, then that could help alleviate concerns of bad faith operators. That's what Session is essentially (started as a fork of Signal): https://getsession.org