Chris Johnson

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Retired airline pilot (UPS 1990-2020), cryptography (not to be confused with cryptocurrency) enthusiast.
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Now that I think of it, whoever had Jeffery Goldberg’s phone number in his or her address book would see the name from the address book. Anyone else would see the profile name. I imagine only Michael Waltz, the person who added him, had his phone number.
@maik It seems most likely that he had two phones.
@maik A shadow device wouldn’t lead to someone being listed twice. It’d still be one Signal user, a user with multiple devices.

It’d be interesting to know what Jeffery Goldberg lists as his own name in his Signal profile. He sees his own membership in the group as “You,” but other members of the group would see whatever name he has in his profile.

Jeffery Goldberg said in his article that he was shown in the group only as JG, but it shows JG in the circle because he doesn’t have a profile picture, and Signal uses your initials as a default profile picture. The other members of the group would see the name in his profile, which could be Jeffery Goldberg, Jeff G., J.G., or anything else with the initials J and G.

The point is that the article says he was identified only as JG, which led people to speculate as to who the other participants thought this mysterious JG was. But we actually don’t know what the other participants saw on their end. Was it just JG? Or was it his full name that somehow nobody noticed?

#signal #signalgate

@mattblaze Please create a separate account with posts tailored to my specific interests.
@tychotithonus It wasn’t that hard, even with the three stacks.

@david_megginson

I don’t know about Android tablets, but you can install Signal on an iPad only, without a phone involved (at least the last time I looked into it). You still need a phone number to register an account, but this can be any phone number at which you can receive a text or a voice call; it doesn’t have to be a number associated with the device you’re registering.

I just asked ChatGPT if this is the case with Android tablets, and it said the situation is the same.

@davidmorford Paul Simon wrote a whole song about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can_Call_Me_Al

You Can Call Me Al - Wikipedia

@jlindmar @aptwi I assume it means being unlocked.
@allenstenhaus @SrRochardBunson There’s no possibility of them decrypting your data, whether they’re subpoenaed by the government or have a gun pointed at their head. They don’t know who you’re communicating with, who’s in your contact list, or what groups you’re in.