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haele

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36. I've gotten a "similar name" in my contacts list by mistake before on TEAMs;
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 08:17 PM
Mar 2025

And ended up having to check every single time that I didn't select that name whenever I built new meetings lists for months afterwards.
It could be as easy as someone, staff member or not, setting up, say, a Press Editors Meeting or something like that on their cell a couple weeks prior, and Goldberg was on that list.
So when a new list or forwarded invite was being built for the Houthi Attack Signal Chat - a list pulled off the Contacts on that particular phone - Goldberg's name could easily have been auto-filled on the invite.
Whomever forwarded the invite didn't check before hitting "send", and since the icon just showed JG, no one on the call thought to find out if he was the actual intended participant or not.

There, I found the problem and gave the most plausible solution. And I didn't charge a million dollars to do so ..

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Is this a joke................. Lovie777 Mar 2025 #1
I thought it was the Onion.... Nictuku Mar 2025 #2
Same here! SheltieLover Mar 2025 #19
I was pretty certain it HAD to be the Onion. dchill Mar 2025 #29
It takes some brainpower to figure out how a number gets on your phone underpants Mar 2025 #3
No. dalton99a Mar 2025 #4
No kidding Bristlecone Mar 2025 #28
yeah that"ll work. AltairIV Mar 2025 #5
Do I hear the word cover up? greatauntoftriplets Mar 2025 #6
Paul weiss Henry203 Mar 2025 #7
You don't need musk to understand what happened. ecstatic Mar 2025 #8
You mean how you add a contact? underpants Mar 2025 #14
That's really going to go over well with the voters Tribetime Mar 2025 #9
The South African parasite will draw on his super genius powers and decades of intelligence work dalton99a Mar 2025 #10
What a joke. OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2025 #11
I find this even more sinister. They are trying to shift blame to Goldberg - Waltz insinuated that something nefarious tulipsandroses Mar 2025 #12
I've seen the hacking excuse posed as question a lot underpants Mar 2025 #13
Ummm when I want to add a number I ask my grandkids to help lol questionseverything Mar 2025 #27
Okay. ❤️ underpants Mar 2025 #30
Just trying to laugh instead of cry ❤️ questionseverything Mar 2025 #31
I've gotten a "similar name" in my contacts list by mistake before on TEAMs; haele Mar 2025 #36
Due, no doubt, to his extensive experience in investigative work. MMBeilis Mar 2025 #15
Was Inspector Clouseau busy? FalloutShelter Mar 2025 #16
Fox, meet henhouse. Aristus Mar 2025 #17
Remember, Dear Leader was amazed that his youngest kid could turn a laptop on in 5 minutes tishaLA Mar 2025 #18
He's good with the cyber a lot of people say. underpants Mar 2025 #26
Why am I not surprised? Ocelot II Mar 2025 #20
COMING SOON: Elon Musk discovers new secret evidence, refers Goldberg to DOJ for indictment dalton99a Mar 2025 #21
Yikes - we were typing at the same time. yellow dahlia Mar 2025 #24
They are going to subpoena Goldberg's phone. yellow dahlia Mar 2025 #22
Yep. dalton99a Mar 2025 #25
He'll put his top tech wizard, code name "Big Balls," right on it. Buns_of_Fire Mar 2025 #23
This is almost hysterically funny, except it isn't. spanone Mar 2025 #32
No kidding. underpants Mar 2025 #33
The Three Stooges' investigation begins synni Mar 2025 #34
Yeab, that'll work. patphil Mar 2025 #35
lol mzmolly Mar 2025 #37
Maybe that will slow down his stealing a couple of days GoodRaisin Mar 2025 #38
Uh huh Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2025 #39
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