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Really? I think the text of the pop up is “new number found for CONTACT NAME. Add it to contact?”

But does it extract this information from a email where a different contact was included? That part sounds weird to me (but possible).

The article says an email including Goldberg’s signature block was copied and pasted into a text message from Hughes.

I read that. But it would still be Goldbergs signature block. So is apple so "dumb" to just take this number and assume it belongs to the email adress contact? To be confirmed with a single touch?

That would be weird to me.

It is for sure a terrible design for a top secret communications system.

For a consumer platform, it makes some sense, and the prompt is supposed to be “hey you might want to do this”, and the user can decide if it makes sense. I’ve used an iphone since they came out, have seen this prompt like twice, and got it right both times. But I’m not a national security advisor or anything so maybe it’s more clear to me.

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