It's clear we're not going to agree on the technical discussion, but I do want to reply to the claim that I've been strawmanning you.

I've been largely ignoring your sideline commentary about not trusting Meta and their other work outside of WhatsApp. Mostly because the whole thrust of my argument is that an app's security is confirmed by analyzing what the code does, not by listening to claims from the author.

Beyond that, I've been commenting in good faith about the core thrust of our disagreement, which is whether or not a lack of available source code disqualifies WhatsApp as a viable secure messaging option alongside Signal.

As part of that, I had to respond midway through because you put a statement in quotation marks that was not actually something I'd said.