Comment by throw678937
8 months ago
You set your own display name on Signal. You can also set "nicknames" for each of your contacts, but they're local to your account. If a nickname is set, it overrides the display name in most places in the UI.
8 months ago
You set your own display name on Signal. You can also set "nicknames" for each of your contacts, but they're local to your account. If a nickname is set, it overrides the display name in most places in the UI.
I figured as much — I think that’s similar to how iphone contacts work based on how it prompts me to change my young cousin’s display name to his setting of “mr balls”.
Seems very likely that Goldberg (who confesses to being a Signal noob) set himself to “JG” so as to not inadvertently expose himself (or his source) in the event of over-the-shoulder surveillance. Still leaves open the question of how he is even in Waltz’s contact book. That said, if Waltz is a secret source, makes sense that Waltz would make a huge public show of how he would never ever be in contact with “bottom scum” like Goldberg