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Signal's nickname feature can protect you from accidentally adding the wrong person to a group chat (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27420305

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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not being an idiot on the level of being mentally handicapped is protection enough.

[–] RamblingPanda 2 points 1 week ago

And using the proper tools. I can't believe Signal is the official communications channel for stuff like this.