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Sounds great. But how do we check if what they say is true?

Make sure criminals use them. Check how the police reacts.

As funny as your comment seem, it's actually true.

Look at the "recent" FBI case. The insecurities became very apparent because Apple had to cooperate.

Unless it's a theater reaction.

s/criminals/whistleblowers (governments don't nearly pursue violent crime as much as they pursue dissidents).

The same way you do with any closed source bit of code, keep painfully reversing its functionality until you eventually know how it works.

Ironically, it's hard to reverse engineer iMessage because the encryption is so good.

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