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Re:A rundown of the new Gmail by Boulth on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @06:48AM (#16920305)
Did I get this right: the client is open source while the service that works in the backend and does 80% of the job is closed source?
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Re:A rundown of the new Gmail by amelius on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @06:54AM (#16920340)
So the source isn't of much use except for verifying that the encryption is robust?

How is that for protonmail?

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Re:A rundown of the new Gmail by kroberton on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @07:03AM (#16920387)
In Protonmail client is open source, server and apps are not.
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