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This sounds less like a Signal problem than an information organization problem. Signal can only show what's in its datastore (your contact list). I just chec
by bsimpson 2y ago
This sounds less like a Signal problem than an information organization problem. Signal can only show what's in its datastore (your contact list).
I just checked on Android - if you try to add someone to a group chat, it shows their name and profile pic.
One potential Signal-side wrinkle is that it allows you to add people to a group chat who are in another chat you're in, but who aren't in your contacts list. There are strangers I was apparently at a dinner party with years ago who are eligible to be added to a group chat. If Jeffrey Goldberg has his Signal profile name set to JG and he wasn't in Mike Waltz's phone with a more specific name, that could lead to this mistake.
- petre 2y agoThen it's a good thing there's not an Abdul-Malik al-Houthi in the administration, as they might have included the wrong person on the private group chat.
- tehjoker 2y agoThey should add one then, because the operation described is illegal under international law and should not have been executed. They are punishing Yemen for resisting the US backed Israeli genocide in Gaza. It is ghastly.
- stogot 2y agoI have empathy for civilians, but you’re having empathy to self-declared murders and terrorists. It’s in their Houthi motto. That’s ghastly
- dttze 2y agoThe US and Israeli governments are murderers and terrorists via their actions. You're complaining about a slogan.
- kulahan 2y agoWell no, he’s complaining about their actions which is shown (in part, relevant to this comment) easily by their enthusiastic acceptance of said slogan.
- tehjoker 2y agoThe blockade of the red sea is a humanitarian operation that is fulfilling yemen's obligations under international law. Genocide prevention rises above all other obligations including the protection of commerce. The united states is facilitating a genocide, we are a bad actor. If you have empathy for civilians regardless, the United States bombed a civilian residence and killed many bystanders to get at a Houthi official engaged in genocide prevention. This is a war crime.
- lmm 2y ago> This sounds less like a Signal problem than an information organization problem. Signal can only show what's in its datastore (your contact list). Signal's insistence on punting on the trust/identity problem is a Signal problem IMO, particularly when its advocates make such a fuss (when it suits them) about being a properly end-to-end cryptosystem and not just a toolbox of algorithms. Most of the systems it's competing with make at least some attempt at providing a chain of trust so you don't have to individually verify everyone you want to talk to.
- GoblinSlayer 2y agoSkype solves it with an invite link. If you want to send an account, you take its invite link and send it, thus making a manual web of trust without search.