Not to everyone in your contacts, but to everyone in your contacts who have your phone number.https://twitter.com/jwz/status/845837421665107972 …
Someone else might have entered that contact as "J Smithers" in their AB, so that # would display as "J Smithers" in Signal.
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When John Smithers installs Signal, if what JWZ is saying were true and Signal was transmitting their # to everyone...
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...how would Signal on JWZ's device know where to put it in JWZ's AB? "Smithers?" "J Smithers?" "That asshole smithers?" etc
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The only way a device running Signal can know to display "Smithers" associated with a # is if the # is already in the card.
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I had that understanding too. Only thing that is "broadcast" is that you find when people in your AB start using Signal
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