Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXV - When One Does Not Understand Security (Nor Ever Pursues Security)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 04, 2026

From Daily Links: Ballot scanner malfunctions, flurry of federal legal actions test election officials on final day of voting

While such equipment failures and breakdowns are not uncommon and happen in a small number of precincts every election cycle, and there is no evidence of foul play, conspiracists quickly jumped on the news.

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
2026-11-02	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
2026-11-03	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXIX - Undermining US Election While Engaging in Lawfare in England (BBC) Against Publishers That Cover Anti-Election Violence
2026-11-03	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXX - Breaking This Year’s Election Process With Bug Doors in Restricted Boot
2026-11-03	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXI - Microsoft and Promoters of "Secure Boot" Are to Blame
2026-11-04	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXII - Malfunctions Reported in Windows Voting Machines (as Usual)
2026-11-04	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXIII - Shooting the Messenger is a Presidential Tactic
2026-11-04	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXIV - Women as Hostages, Even Spouses

Garrett sounds a lot like a PR agent of Microsoft today. Maybe he's not even noticing this. "That's because [Garrett] is an agent of Microsoft and always has been," an associate notes.

A pattern is beginning to emerge in the fridge/freezer incidents.

"It does not matter if or if not the bottom layer is Linux or even BSD," the associate says, "when the layer above it is Windows and exposed to the 'net."

Many supermarkets have Web- or Net-facing Windows PCs. Those PCs can control any or all the fridges. Therein lies the problem and it's also connected to Microsoft via Azure.

For some background see:

2026-10-16	Fridges Do Not Need an Internet Connection
2026-10-19	Media 'Blackout' About Microsoft-Danfoss Connection After Almost 1,000 Supermarkets in France Get Cracked, Huge Amount of Food Destroyed
2026-11-03	Microsoft and Spoilt Food

"As someone who has worked in industrial controls engineering and hands-on," one SN user notes, "I can tell you that many of the HMI (Human-Machine Interface) touchscreens run one of the Windows CE / "embedded" variants. The HMI is the user control panel for the machine. It's the thing that would be connected to a network / Internet."

Voting machines are the same. And there are actively-exploited holes in them. That includes UEFI ones (days ago). More importantly, Windows has back doors by design/intention. Those also exist in BitLocker, yet Garrett keeps promoting BitLocker [1, 2] (despite being reminded by us of these back doors for over a decade already).

One might therefore conclude that Garrett is a proponent of American back doors. He gets paid in America, where he collaborates with Balabhadra (Alex) Graveley in lawfare overseas (across the ocean, by proxy). The lawfare began 6 days before Graveley, a Microsoft employee, was arrested. █