Re: You can protect your Mac from malware by following three simple rules!

From	Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.computer.workshop, uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject	Re: You can protect your Mac from malware by following three simple rules!
Organization	Southern Nevada Institute of Technology
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Date	2026-05-22 13:31 +0000
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On May 22, 2026 at 5:36:00 AM MST, ""David B."" wrote
<n7b0tgF72kvU1@mid.individual.net>:

> On 21/05/2026 23:33, Gremlin wrote:
>> "David B." <"David B."@invalid.org> news:n77unfFmrb9U1@mid.individual.net
>> Thu, 21 May 2026 08:40:15 GMT in alt.computer.workshop, wrote:
>> 
>>> On 21/05/2026 01:51, Brock McNuggets wrote:
>>>> Which it might use for historic reasons or whatever. I can agree it
>>>> should let the user know, but this is really making a mountain out of a
>>>> mole hill.
>>> 
>>> All I'm asking is WHY they are stored there!
>> 
>> Why does it matter? You are making a big deal out of nothing.
> 
> It matters because he lies about it!

There is a poorly worded dialog. It happens.

>>> Even Dustin Cook, who has claimed that he is frequent contact with John
>>> Daniel, cannot explain.
>> 
>> Now you're just being dishonest (as usual) as you continue to name drop.
> 
> Yo told us that you had sent him all the emails which you and I had once
> shared. Surely you haven't forgotten?
>>> Maybe you have forgotten, but it was just after you helped me experiment
>>> with EtreCheck that your hard drive failed. How certain are you that the
>>> two things were not connected?
>> 
>> You are a complete tech idiot, David. The questions you ask confirm that you
>> really do not have any working knowledge or understanding of how these
>> machines work. Despite your military training and experience. Along with
>> countless individuals who have all explained various technical things to you.
>> All for it to simply go in one ear and right back out the other one.
> 
> It is quite OK for you to /think/ that - but you might be wrong!
>>> He's probably forgotten more than you will ever know about computer
>>> hardware! 😉
>> 
>> Software too. <G>
> 
> Apple software? No, I don't believe that.

Gremlin confused Profiles and Preferences, he thought an Internet boot booted
from a local drive, he thought ASCII -- a standard across any platform it is
used -- was specific to each platform, Gremlin knew less than you did about
the risks of writing to APFS on Linux, Gremlin did not understand that on APFS
you can copy a 10 GB file and use essentially no added hard drive space,
Gremlin saw Unicode characters and said they were a different font, Gremlin
did not know a floppy disk could stop a PC from booting, he thought a 2017
iMac might have come with a chip from 2020, on and on and on. These are all
provable with MIDs and quotes.

Gremlin thought it was impressive in a tech group like this to brag that he
used a computer with no mouse!


>>>> Right: you are honest. Carroll and Gremlin are not.
>>> 
>>> I am! ✅. They can, and should, change their ways!
>> 
>> He and you really need to stop projecting the known issues with the two of
>> you onto other people. it doesn't work. it isn't helping either of you out
>> in a positive manner.
>> 
>>> I'm uncertain just HOW Dustin found out so much about you.
>> 
>> When I shared the information the first time around, I was quite clear in
>> explaining it was a compilation of data from some paid sites and others you
>> can't pay for access because you aren't supposed to be using them. I was
>> also very clear in stating that I took no part in the purchasing and had
>> previously advised against going that route, but, the individuals who shared
>> with me are grown ass adults with their own money. I can't very well demand
>> they do/don't do this or that.
>> 
>> I was clear about that when I shared it the first time. Snit doesn't share
>> those details. Instead, he lies his ass off again by making up another story
>> that I paid for information from people finder sites. I've yet to part ways
>> with my money for things I can find on my own and have better access to. I
>> didn't use paid sites for your former friends, dumbarse. I did it the same
>> way I did snit.
>> 
>> Your friend is so well known that finding information on him was very simple.
>> Many people before me had already done most of the legwork and shared it. I
>> and others came across the information and compiled it. Then we shared it.
> 
> Thank you for explaining matters.

He is lying. He paid for sites. He even shared what sites -- it is in the
content he doxxed me with. Doxed me and people who share nothing with me other
than the last name of my ex (what a bizarre flex for him to attack strangers).


>>> I prefer to ask questions and receive honest answers. I don't think you
>>> have tried to mislead me.
>> 
>> When he claims I told various bs stories about the papers I have, while
>> ignoring the responses I provided then and continued to provide, he's
>> misleading you (and trying hard to mislead others). When he claims that I
>> paid for information concerning him; after I wrote I didn't when I shared
>> the information, he's misleading you. When he claims to want peace, he's
>> misleading you. When he claims that he didn't write a lie when he accused me
>> of having a copy of the floodbot (but doesn't and won't! share the post in
>> full context that he lifts two paragraphs from to support his story); he's
>> misleading you.
> 
> Whenever I ask him straight-forward question he always provides
> satisfactory answers.

Gremlin insists it is lying to QUOTE him:

Gremlin <XnsAB6D6F1BFA61HT1@3dOIZISX3.IwU6R1OH8iz29MMTN26bF08TPFtT157gyFB5>:
    -----
    It needs to be recoded anyway, it's a seriously piss poor
    example of writing software.
    -----

Gremlin <XnsAB6E44E6AFE1AHT1@ZdS859K14.7p1JRyU90Zyd>
    -----
    Do you think when you disassemble something that you're
    provided the original source code that was
    compiled/assembled by the author? You aren't, what you're
    given looks nothing like the original source code, but it
    still tells you *everything* about the program.
    -----

Those are from him. Direct quotes. MIDs provided. If you can understand what
you read you will come to the same conclusion as ChatGPT, which I shared the
full posts with:

https://chatgpt.com/share/681ea0aa-d35c-800c-b586-185275735e26
    -----
    Gremlin repeatedly claims he hasn’t seen the source code
    for Carroll’s flood bot—yet he calls it a “seriously piss
    poor example of writing software” and boasts that
    disassembly “tells you everything about the program.” So
    either he’s seen the code or reverse-engineered it—meaning
    he has examined it closely enough to know how it works. He
    criticizes it like someone who’s dug into its inner
    workings, but dances around admitting it outright. And for
    someone who sometimes denies Carroll is behind the bot, he
    sure acts like he knows a lot about it.
    -----

He can cry and whine and complain all he wants -- but it is not a lie to note
he pushed the idea he had insider info... and then backed off when he realized
what that meant. Did he? Who knows... we do know Carroll got defensive on the
quote I show first -- wanted to know how Gremlin could know his code was bad.

>> When he claims that Carroll and myself are the dishonest ones (We don't have
>> a website or usenet history going back decades full of people who have shown
>> that we are dishonest people) and he's the innocent victim, he's attempting
>> to mislead you.
> 
> Perhaps *HE* is teasing you too, eh?!!

Nope. I am noting simple facts.

Gremlin and other trolls make provably false claims about my life. They do
this about me having driven without insurance. Never happened. They claim this
went to court. BOOM! Busted! If it had -- in AZ -- it would be public
knowledge. It is not. It makes no sense there is private public knowledge.
Same with their claims of plea bargains and restraining orders and the like.
All would be publicly available. None of it is. It does not exist. Provably
does not exist.

So it is a provable fact they are lying.

Their "evidence" -- lots of trolls make similar claims (though often
contradictory ones). This proves ME correct: where I look to actual evidence,
they look to tribalism and scapegoating. They brag this is their key
evidence... others say it. Not reputable sources mind you... as noted those
prove it is not true... just that a bunch of trolls say it.

Tribalism and Scapegoating.

That is what they have... and ALL they have.

I have facts on my side. I have truth. I have reality. I have something ANYONE
can look up for themselves. A source I have never pointed to but they have.
They have repeatedly self nuked.

This shows they revel in their attacks and care not one whit for the honesty
of those attacks, nor the appropriateness of them, nor the morality of them.
Gremlin SHOWS he is insecure and SHOWS himself treating me like the market
leader.

Facts. They matter.

Gremlin will respond to this with a long winded attack. What it will NOT
include is ANY proof of my not having insurance -- for there is no such proof
and it is not true. He will not include ANY evidence of a plea bargain or a
restraining order, for those are more of his lies.

Watch for it he will do a dance. He will puff up his chest.

He might even threaten. But look above... we now know truth, morality,
appropriateness matter NOTHING to him. So with his threats IF he could carry
them out morality would not stop him. He lacks morality. Yet in years of
threats he has done nothing but cower when called out.

I *AM* having issues with my computer right now. Gremlin has nothing to do
with those issues. He does not know what they even are. Finally Apple took
responsibility last night for their own goof... though they have no good
answer.

With that little hint see if Gremlin knows what is going on. I said more about
it in the past. I bet he won't. He can't. He is a blow hard.

>> Are you just stupid, or is it a combination of dishonesty with a side
>> helping of stupidity?
> 
> You'll never know, lad! 😛
> 
>> I'm not convinced that you're actually buying any of his claims towards
>> anyone else. I think it's just you doing what you do.
> 
> Hehe!  😂

I have facts and morality.

Gremlin has tribalism and scapegoating and immorality.

We each "win" by our own standards.

-- 
It's impossible for someone who is at war with themselves to be at peace with you.
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