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Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Thank You Apple!

Hello again. Brian Joseph Johns here.


I've been an iTunes user for years, and had my main account (under my alternate email fav.inbox@gmail.com) hacked by another user who apparently had been using my iTunes account at another location, possibly in the same city as mine or somewhere else.


It was an account for which I'd lost the answers to my security questions as I never use the actual answers to security questions as they can be gotten to by other means such as social engineering or Open Source intelligence.


So I had this iTunes account for years that was used both by me, and a hacker who has been using it to impersonate my identity from another location other than my home address in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This hacker wasn't someone that I know personally or at least insofar as I'm aware. It was someone however whom had been impersonating my identity for quite some time, and seemed to be assisting the people attempting to steal my content and my identity for since 2012, or possibly earlier.


Recently, Apple changed the interface of their verification process, allowing a person to verify using their payment card as a form of two-factor authentication, which allowed me to bypass the fact that I had forgotten the answers to my secret questions and finally after years, allowed me to reset my password and change my email. 


So essentially, today, after having had this asshole using my account for years, I was able to finally lock them out of my iTunes for good. Since 2025, I've been locking down all of these loose ends, and trying to cut off the identity thieves one by one. The iTunes account was one of the trickiest situations of those situations but thankfully, since Apple took the bold move to improve their two-factor authentication process, I've been able to reclaim another piece of my identity and my life. I wish that other social media companies and online platforms would follow suit, as identity is more and more becoming intrinsically linked to a person's analytics data over the span of time they created that account. When you lose access to such an account, it is literally like you're losing your identity, though the real problem is socially ideological and collectivist as a form of power over loners. People that predatory collectives isolate so they can take some aspect of their being from them and wear it as their own.


Seeing companies like Apple going with innovative and cutting edge policies that help a person keep their identity associated with their person, rather than solely their email account or even the online account itself is a big step in the right direction. If someone can take the impression of being the owner of your account, then they can take the accumulated effort you've put into it, in a sense, taking your karma from you, or by attempting to make you seem inconsistent with the activities of your own account.


In my case, I've had that sort of thing going on for years, with a group trying to polarize me by making it seem that two different email accounts that I operate belong to two different people, rather than the same person. Essentially, what they're trying to do is to make it appear that fav.inbox@gmail.com belonged to someone else, and that I stole their account, rather than the truth, which is that I own both accounts, the fav.inbox@gmail.com account, and the account with which I've been publishing content all new content on Shhhh! Digital Media for the last two years.


Not to mention, I had a bunch of movies and music on my iTunes account that goes back many years. Its nice to have finally been able to integrate it with my brand identity and my personal identity. The identity thieves are people who've been trying to associate my identity with a very different digital footprint than is the truth. Its funny how in this day and age, one's online activity can become a form of karma, and that there are people and collectives out there who actively seek to steal that karma or relocate theirs to someone else's online identity. That's really what's going on under the veil.


Also, these same people are and have been trying to give you a very different impression about my actual identity, that is based upon someone else's. For one, I'm very pale skinned European Canadian. I don't smoke at all. I drink alcohol occasionally but infrequently. I eat fish and chicken often, though I don't eat pork or beef very often. Maybe once a year, but I do eat them occasionally. I work every day, producing something towards the ends of furthering Shhhh! Digital Media, or advocating for the charities it promotes, but I don't volunteer. I've been writing and creating Butterfly Dragon and Tales of the Sanctum content for a VERY long time. Both ideas have their roots in short stories I wrote before I'd turned twelve years old (forty-six years ago). I've been working on the modern incarnation of both storylines since 2012. I'm a man and considerably fit despite my sum activity level and age, though I've been very active health wise for most of my adult life. I don't have a social circle or even people near me with whom I socialize. I am a very, very solitary person and am often kept isolated by the same abusive collectives who are having a negative impact on the lives of many others similarly. I just happen to be a lot more sturdy than most and unafraid of such obstacles. These abusive collectives are convincing many of my readers that I'm someone else, and giving the credit to that person rather than associating it with me. They're social thieves of a new kind. My name is Brian Joseph Johns.


I'm very saddened to hear about the shootings in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. Grieving for the lost and injured.


I'll be working for another day on offline projects, once again, doing some modeling in Lightwave 3D and hopefully doing some prototyping in Unreal Engine before the end of the day on Thursday February 12, 2026. That should put me back to writing by the weekend and publishing something new by Monday I'm hoping.


See you soon! :-)

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