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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)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 26, 2026,
updated Oct 26, 2026

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We'd rather talk about the harms caused, not what we call the GGG brigade ("Restricted Boot" Garrett, "Microsoft Plagiarism" Graveley & "Gas The Jews" Lozza). It's what they divert attention away from that matters to millions of people, who are negatively impacted until now.

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The man on the left was getting drunk with Microsoft employees while working to ensure Microsoft controls GNU/Linux users from the moment they switch on their PCs; his litigation ally, on the right, was a Microsoft employee when he allegedly made an illegal arrangement [1, 2] with GitHub's CEO and enabled mass plagiarism by Microsoft (GPL violations, too)

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

Today we are assured mitigation is in place. This concerns someone chronically irritated that we: 1) talk about why Restricted Boot is not actually about about security (it's promoted by Microsoft staff, not security professionals); 2) explain what has happened since 5 years ago when Microsoft's Graveley got arrested (shortly after our series) and days later Garrett began sending legal letters (nastygrams); 3) remind people that days after we had sued Garrett in September 2024 [1, 2] Lozza began sending threats to the webhost (Lozza has previously done this in tandem with Garrett several times, targetting several webhosts in two continents).

This series focuses on swatting, with some but not all focus on Lozza. Graveley's and Garrett's hired guns are exceptionally irritated when we bring up Lozza. They know just how dangerous that it to Garrett.

It's not because of Lozza's hate crimes, which the judge in charge of media in the UK's High Court remarked on. It's not as if Garrett himself has a grown-up's mouth.

'Fuck you vigorously with a chainsaw. Your continual whining and conspiracy theories have done more to encourage me to stab people to death than anyone else in recent history.' -Matthew Garrett

At this point we choose to focus on (1) above because it's timely (centralised CA catastrophe still unfolding) and it also seems to strike a nerve. Maybe it's time to get back to two parts per day, seeing there is a growing backlog.

Recently we estimated that only about 3% of our output (across sites) concerns GGG and the hired guns (SLAPP) affairs. If it increases to about 5%, this will still leave us up to 95% of the time for other, equally noteworthy topics.

To be clear, we were all along the defensive side (and site). There's nothing wrong with that. There is nothing wrong about defending Computer Science, computer security, women (subjected to serious abuse), and protecting one's wife from the above-mentioned hate crimes. Judging by the annual escalation of GGG's ambitions, maybe in 2027 they'll request a public execution of my wife. What is it about these people that makes them hate women so much? Rejection? Why did they choose hired guns whose staff retention (of women in particular) is so awful? The penis talk? How old are these people??? █


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