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by stephenr 4204 days ago
Because they can say "hey look at our code here" when in fact they're running something else entirely.
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But that does not matter if you trust your client and everything gets encrypted locally. That's the entire point of client-side encryption, not having to trust the server. Just review and then compile the client. And just self-hosting the server will not make you any saver because the client may be rogue and send your data to anyone.