Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXVIII - Microsoft Doesn't Want People to Speak About Microsoft-Controlled Restricted ('Secure') Boot, a Silent Injustice and Back Door/Kill Switch

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 02, 2026,
updated Nov 02, 2026

Last month: James Bottomley Has Promoted Microsoft-Controlled Restricted ('Secure') Boot, His Blog Has Just Been Cracked

Criticise the perpetrator, get called a "rapist"?

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)
2026-10-31	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXV - Election Integrity at a Time of Back Doors and Very Severe Bugs in UEFI
2026-11-01	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXVI - The "Law and Order" Candidate Who Crushes Both Law and Order and Even Rejects Election Outcomes (Insurrection Follows)
2026-11-02	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXVII - Shooting the Messengers (People Who Oppose Microsoft Back Doors), Even Across the Atlantic

Microsoft-controlled Restricted ('Secure') Boot remains a problem. It has been a problem for 1.5 decades already. And yet, the media seldom even mentions it, except when there's yet another critical hole. The media would also habitually mention that this impacts voting machines, as we showed in the previous part. So why are we tolerating it? Because it's "old news". The problem is still a problem, even if it's "old".

People did not stop campaigning against the practice of slavery because:

• "Slavery was and old problem"
• "This was inevitable"
• "There's really nothing we can do about it"

Heck, why even vote if the dictator insists that he will stay in power (regardless of elections)?

Microsoft-controlled Restricted ('Secure') Boot needs to return to headlines, not just because of imminent elections, where all the machines are in effect controlled by Microsoft, which would even attack judges abroad on behalf of the dictator.

From this past weekend: Linux Foundationals: From Silicon to Userspace - The Boot and Init Chain

From the article:

Here’s the catch for Linux distributions: almost every PC ships with Microsoft’s certificates in db and nothing else. Getting Fedora’s key into the firmware of every laptop on the planet isn’t realistic. So the industry settled on shim: a small, deliberately boring first-stage loader that Microsoft signs with its third-party UEFI CA. Shim itself contains the distribution’s certificate (Fedora’s, or Red Hat’s on RHEL), and from that point on the distribution verifies its own binaries.

Can we please stop treating this as normal or acceptable?

12 days ago we published: Techrights Was Right About a Fake Security Model Built Around Lies or Built Upon Trust in "Certificates" and "Authorities" (like Microsoft) █