Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXV - Election Integrity at a Time of Back Doors and Very Severe Bugs in UEFI

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 31, 2026

It was all along a Microsoft project that had nothing to do with security, it is a threat to national security

Previous Parts:

2026-10-12	Intercontinental Brigading - Part I - The Failed Attempt to 'Swat' Our Series About the Attacks and Crimes Committed Against Us
2026-10-13	Intercontinental Brigading - Part II - An Outline of This Series
2026-10-14	Intercontinental Brigading - Part III - Reporting Harassment From America to British Police
2026-10-16	Intercontinental Brigading - Part IV - Harassment Registered With the Police Before Projection Attempts Made From America
2026-10-16	Intercontinental Brigading - Part V - Keeping Linux Under Users' Control, Not Microsoft's (NSA) Control, Leads to Weaponisation of Cops (Killing the Messengers)
2026-10-17	Intercontinental Brigading - Part VI - Racism Against Blacks
2026-10-18	Intercontinental Brigading - Part VII - Weekend Abuse Reported to British Police (Rogue Actors Take No Breaks)
2026-10-19	Intercontinental Brigading - Part VIII - How We Convinced British Police That the Americans Were Just Manipulating and Tricking Them at the Expense of British Taxpayers
2026-10-20	Intercontinental Brigading - Part IX - Swatting is Not Funny, Swatting is a Murder Attempt
2026-10-21	Intercontinental Brigading - Part X - American Back Doors Inside Our Computers, With Transatlantic Swatting Against Critics Thrown 'Into the Mix'
2026-10-22	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XI - Losing Over a Million Pounds (Borrowed Money) to Try to Silence Critics of Restricted Boot With Microsoft-Controlled "Certificates"
2026-10-23	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XII - Lawfare to Cover Up Microsoft's Restricted Boot Calamity (Microsoft as Authority Over Linux), Garrett Wants to Talk About Penises Instead
2026-10-24	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XIII - Censorship by All Means Available in a Continent So Far Away, as 'Secure' (Restricted, Restriction by Microsoft) Boot Has a Crisis of Legitimacy
2026-10-25	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XIV - Six Years of Learning Irish, But the Real Issue Was Microsoft-controlled 'Secure' (Restricted) Boot
2026-10-26	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XV - Annualised Consequences for Opposing Microsoft Back Doors in Linux Since 2012
2026-10-26	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVI - The Faustian Pact That Irritates Hired Guns is Still a Distraction From the Serious Harm Done by Their Clients to GNU/Linux Users (Notably Plagiarism and Back Doors)
2026-10-27	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVII - The Relevance of Silent Layoffs at Microsoft
2026-10-27	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVIII - Microsoft is Not the Victim (It Was Never the Victim), It's Just DARVO
2026-10-28	Intercontinental Brigading - Part IX - Literature About Malignant Narcissists in America Silencing the Press
2026-10-28	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XX - Restricted and Moot, or How 'Secure Boot' Turns Out to be a Disaster (Again) This Week
2026-10-29	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXI - Techrights Was Right, So Why Was It Punished by Lawfare While the Culprits Walk Away Scot-free?
2026-10-29	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXII - Still "Radio Silence" From "Restricted Boot" Perpetrators (After Techrights Proven Right Again)
2026-10-30	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXIII - What Garrett Did Puts Elections at Risk (Also in His Own Country, Where a Dictator Trusts Only Machines That 'Support' Him)
2026-10-30	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXIV - It's an Inherently American Issue and American Elections Are at Risk From Restricted ('Secure') Boot and LLM Chatbots (Disinformation at Scale)

There are more and more open clues that next week's election outcome - the midterms in the US - will be followed by tantrums and annulment attempts. Wait and watch how the results in the US will be challenged, either wholly (entirely, nationally) or piecewise (locally). Two approaches, which aren't novel, can be 1) discrediting the outcome (saying "Russian hack" or "Democrats"); 2) stealthily tampering by technical means.

(1) is connected to (2). The problem goes away if "Traditional Methods" are adhered to.

Expect a bit of both. Like noted in the last part, the FSF has a clear stance on this, which is consistent with its past position/s. Many NGOs rightly condemn electronic ballots, irrespective of the known security flaws. Elections have long worked just fine with pen and paper (or pencil and paper).

But it has been getting a lot worse in recent years because we know that Microsoft attacks judges (overseas) on behalf of the American dictator and even if they don't use Microsoft or Windows or Office/Microsoft 360, "thanks" to Matthew Garrett right now Microsoft also remotely controls GNU/Linux laptops, desktops, servers etc.

This month we know of severe holes connected to what Matthew Garrett has promoted for almost 15 years while trying to silence critics.

This inescapable problem cannot be overlooked and it's far from being addressed.

As our weekend parts are short (by intent=ion), we'll leave the more technical parts aside for later in this series.

Expect likely chaotic rants (if not violence) to ensue after Tuesday, as the dictator will find something to get angry about. He always controls and he already has access to (via Microsoft, "thanks" to Matthew Garrett) all the GNU/Linux servers and other machines that don't have Microsoft software on them.

We're going to discuss some of the technical means facilitated by Matthew Garrett for this 'turnkey tyranny', as this was covered in the past. I assembled many links about this in the past, especially in Daily Links or in Tux Machines.

Bullies like to censor their critics by lawfare, even in foreign continents. How dare British media comment on insurrection following a US election? █