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.
This is precisely why I have all contacts saved very specifically in my phone;
Company - Fname Lname (position)Looks like;
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.” "