On: Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts

[lucasyvas]

All facts aside about how it's now resolved and only surfaced using a certain setting, etc...

This an absolutely horrific bug - worse than even an encryption snafu. Can you imagine depending on Signal's privacy features, possibly with your life, and encountering this bug?

Fuck - this could ruin someone that hasn't even done anything wrong.

If I knew this bug existed and I was on this team, I would have been in all out panic mode all these months. Literally shitting my pants.

[Causality1 → lucasyvas]

One among many reasons I use different apps for different people in my life. My partner is the only person I message on one, my friends on another, my family only over text messages, and my coworkers only over email or phone calls.

[lucasyvas → Causality1]

I've never thought of doing this, but I often feel a pang of uncertainty whenever I open my phone's share sheet.

Like.. when I pick person A, is the app going to screw it up and send it to person B somehow?

I honestly have nothing life ruining going on, but huge embarrassment sometimes if a mistake were made? Definitely.

This bug is a worst fear realized.

[Causality1 → lucasyvas]

I also make sure that if I'm using a platform with more than one person each contact must be visually distinct. For example, all my friends are on WhatsApp and they each have their own chat background image. You can't slip up that way.