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Re:Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016) by pzduniak on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:41AM (#15815269)
> you'd still be protected by PGP.

You wouldn't, PGP is verified by code that can be MITM'd if the traffic is spoofed.

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Re:Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016) by rocqua on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:29PM (#15820972)
Ah yes, you are right. That darn server-provided client-side code without any decent means of verification really wrecks a lot of security guarantees.
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