From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   I wrote this to Chris on the Windows newsgroup just now, but it covers the   
   topic of privacy and header privacy in particular, so I think it's apropos.   
      
    Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
    Subject: Re: Any point to password protecting the bios if only 3 people in   
   the household, and 2 know nothing about bioses?   
    Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2026 15:58:11 -0500   
    Message-ID: <10ltnh3$2p6s$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>   
      
   Chris wrote:   
   > I'm not reflecting your ability to explain things. "Maria" is a very well   
   > known nymshifting troll on the iphone ng.   
      
   Hi Chris,   
      
   I'm going to try very hard to correct you while being very nice doing it.   
      
   There's this 700-year old concept first expressed by Aristotle & Aquinas   
   but which is most remembered after being formalized by William of Ockham.   
      
   Occam's razor says the simplest explanation is usually the best one as long   
   as it accounts for *all the known facts*. It doesn't mean "pick only one   
   explanation that fits only one detail and ignore the rest", Chris.   
      
   It means the explanation that fits everything is likely most reasonable.   
   So let's look at all the data, not just one piece of it.   
      
   Yes, I change nyms at least once a year. I've said that openly for decades,   
   and I've always explained why. Basic privacy.   
      
   Have I ever not wanted privacy?   
   Everyone on this newsgroup, for decades, is well aware of that fact, Chris.   
      
   But everything else about me stays exactly the same such as my writing   
   style, my technical depth, my tone, my posting habits, and my long history   
   of contributing without trolling. In all these decades, nobody has ever   
   produced a single example of me trolling under any name.   
      
   You didn't use the word trolling, but your implication is clear, Chris.   
   You simply don't like how much I know about Apple products, Chris.   
   And that's fine. You don't have to like that I understand Apple gear.   
      
   But if you apply Occam's razor correctly, the explanation that fits all the   
   evidence is simply that I'm the same person I've always been, using a fresh   
   nym at least once each year for privacy. The alternative explanation you   
   hint at, which is that I'm secretly some unrelated troll, requires you   
   ignoring decades of consistent behavior and you maliciously inventing   
   motives that don't match anything I've ever done.   
      
   That's why your conclusion doesn't hold up. It's based on one isolated fact   
   while disregarding the full pattern everyone here has seen for years.   
      
      
   > He has this obsession on Apple   
   > "motherships" and how Apple devices won't work without being polled for a   
   > pw several times a day. Many people have told him that is not reality. He   
   > refuses to accept it due to his own obtuse experience.   
      
   Hi Chris,   
      
   Again, I'm going to try very hard to correct you while being nice doing it.   
      
   What you said above, is so wrong, that I simply need to point to the full   
   thread on that very topic because you just "saying" that doesn't do that   
   which even Apple documentation says it does, doesn't mean that "many people   
   have told him" means that what you think Apple does is what Apple does.   
    From: Maria Sophia    
    Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
    Subject: Why does iOS ask for your passwd even though you never logged out?   
    Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 10:21:08 -0500   
   Organization: BWH Usenet Archive (https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com)   
    Message-ID: <10jj995$205k$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>   
      
   I *test* how iOS works, Chris. Not only do I read what Apple documents, but   
   I test what Apple does NOT document, which is on two iPads, I didn't   
   re-enter the password even once in two years and *both* were unilaterally   
   bricked (Activation Lock) which required me to go to the local Apple store,   
   twice, since they didn't brick them both at the same time, to show Apple my   
   government ID (so much for privacy) so that they'd unlock it and allow me   
   to enter my very same password to start the test anew for 2 more years.   
      
   In the time of my kid's college graduation, I tested iOS to prove what it   
   does with respect to the password, so you simply saying all of you who have   
   never tested it nor looked up how it works are "telling me" how you think   
   it works, doesn't fit Occam's Razor of incorporating all the known facts.   
      
   To get those facts, I test & ask probing questions of all systems, Chris.   
   These are not "trolls" even as you don't seem to like the answers we find.   
    From: Maria Sophia    
    Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
    Subject: How frequently does iOS phone home in the background to mothership   
   tracking servers?   
    Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:02:43 -0500   
    Message-ID: <10jub94$19rg$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>   
      
   I test Apple/Windows/Android privacy every day, just as I test   
   Apple/Windows/Android interoperability every day, Chris.   
      
   I've tested not having a Google Account on Android, for example, Chris.   
   And I've shown that I can do everything on Android that anyone else can do,   
   but I do it without that privacy-robbing mothership account, Chris.   
      
   That's just a fact.   
   So is the fact that I've tested setting up Windows 11 without that same   
   privacy-robbing mothership account and I reported on how I did that too.   
    From: Maria Sophia    
    Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebui   
   t,alt.comp.microsoft.windows   
    Subject: PSA: I can happily report that my first Win11 Home installed sans a   
   MSA   
    Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:24:16 -0500   
    Message-ID: <10k3l9g$2ug$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>   
      
   I'm always talking about privacy, from Veracrypt to KeepassXC to setting up   
   iOS devices WITHOUT the privacy-robbing mothership account, which, let's be   
   clear since people on this newsgroup might not know how Apple does things,   
   is basically possible but the iOS device won't work anything like you want   
   it to, unlike what setting up Android and Windows 11 w/o the MSA can do.   
      
   Effectively, for iOS, you must have that privacy-robbing mothership   
   account. Only then does anything "just work" on iOS devices, Chris.   
      
   And you know this, but I'm only stating the obvious for the Windows team.   
   Calling me "obtuse" for testing how iOS works, is unfair to my efforts.   
      
   I believe you should apologize, but this is Usenet so your active insults   
   are, to me, water under the bridge as I will remain civil with you anyway.   
      
   >   
   >>  And is "Maria Sophia" not a real girl? I always read her as being a   
   >> girl?   
   >   
      
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