Encryption can’t protect you from adding the wrong person to a group chat. But there is also a setting to make sure you don’t.
You can add your own nickname to a Signal contact by clicking on the person’s profile picture in a chat with them then clicking “Nickname.” Signal says “Nicknames & notes are stored with Signal and end-to-end encrypted. They are only visible to you.” So, you can add a nickname to a Jason saying “co-founder,” or maybe “national security adviser,” and no one else is going to see it. Just you. When you’re trying to make a group chat, perhaps.
Signal could improve its user interface around groups and people with duplicate display names.
or maybe “national security adviser,”
lol
“When the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him.”
This is precisely why I have all contacts saved very specifically in my phone;
Company - Fname Lname (position)Looks like;
US Government - Pete Hegseth (Secretary of Defense)
Gives you all the information you could need. Even drunk I’ve never accidentally messaged someone else, or added some rando to the group chat before we bombed the Houthis.
" He… He’s a special ops trainer.
What was his name?
Yeah. Jack Trainer.
So he’s a trainer named Jack Trainer?
That’s how I have everybody in my phone. See, “Janice Mom.”
“Larry Doorknob.” “Stacy Butt Stuff.” "
Signal could improve its user interface around groups and people with duplicate display names.
Nah, they really shouldn’t. Way more fun this way.
- Jeffrey Goldberg DO NOT ADD!!!
It literally is just skill issue if you add a wrong person lol
Tip: you can also protect yourself from other group chat users leaking screenshots of your hateful comments - just don’t be an asshole, it’s not that difficult.
A brain can also do that
No evidence of a brain has ever been found.
If you were to discuss national security maters with someone, please just verify your safety numbers, IRL or through another safe and verified channel 🙄
national security maters
I would say don’t teach them how to use Signal, but they clearly don’t read anyway so fuck it.
I have several Signal nicknames:
John Baron
Dougal McStormy
Hot4tinPoo
Nobady can tell who I am
Let’s call it the “Hegseth switch”
Jason messing up the Signal chat.
>adds Dick van Dyke instead of Department of Defense
ssssshhhhhh!!
shush about this one!
