From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-10

The s|b troll has recently re-infested the Android newsgroup.
He has been asked to act like an adult and stop trolling Usenet.
He can't stop himself, so I am simply pointing to his most recent troll.

From: s|b <me@privacy.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: How many apps on your phone have contacts read permission?
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:40:37 +0100
Message-ID: <mv3f5jF779aU1@mid.individual.net>

That thread discusses how to tell which tools have read access to our
contacts, where it's important for basic decency to our contacts to
maintain their privacy, the point being we can't protect the privacy of our friends and family whose contacts we're entrusted with, if we don't know
which packages are uploading our contacts to their 3rd-party servers.

Most people seem to be reporting between ten and twenty programs (system
apps being included) where then the goal is to figure out what each and
every one of those programs is "doing" with their upload of our contacts.

That's a valid technical topic but it is being trolls by the likes of
From: Alan Baker <nuh-uh@nope.com>
From: s|b <me@privacy.invalid>
From: "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>

All of whom also troll the Windows newsgroups so this post is an attempt to publicly bring it out so that common human decency can finally take hold.

From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: How many apps on your phone have contacts read permission?
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:37:10 -0800
Message-ID: <10mgbum$1dlt$1@dont-email.me>

From: "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: How many apps on your phone have contacts read permission?
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:54:52 +0000
Message-ID: <20260211165452.b8776481e5a674ce974d30c6@127.0.0.1>
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