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The Microsofter Who Kept Sending Threatening Post and E-mail to My Wife Has Been Spooking Women for at Least Two Decades

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 22, 2025

Last month: Microsoft's Serial Strangler Chose to Attack Techrights With SLAPP When Over 400 Victims of Mohamed Al Fayed Complained About Media's Role in Enabling Him

So yesterday and two days ago we showed a pattern of threats. The Microsofters sent threats to my webhosts (even female webhosts got targeted!), to my family (including several times to my wife!) and three days ago we explained why. In fact, four days ago we explained censorship was the ultimate goal.

This isn't a new problem; last year we covered an E-mail sent to Debian 19 years ago. It came from Matthew Garrett himself; what he calls "extreme paranoia" isn't paranoia at all. Women are smart, so they can sense when a mentally sick person (who openly admits seeking professional help for it) is near them and they learn to keep their distance.

It's quite revealing that he's openly admitting this sort of thing; he's aware that some girls dislike him and maybe their gut feeling is very much correct. Only a few years ago he told us he was getting married and then got married; this week he repeatedly talks about a "girlfriend", so one can only guess and fill the gaps (divorce or cheating or polygamy). This was about "Java, drugs and rock&roll":

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Subject: Re: Java, drugs and rock&roll

Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:48:16 +0100

From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>

To: debian-private@lists.debian.org

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 04:10:50PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:

I posit that people starting expulsion process are part of that

category. If you prefer to get rid of people instead of working with

them, you do no not work well as part of a team.

Are you suggesting that anyone who felt the project would be better off without Ted is unable to work well as part of a team?

It's an unfortunate fact that it is impossible to work with some people without making compromises that limit your own enjoyment of the activity. As an (extreme) example, the fact that my officemate is currently showing signs of extreme paranoia (to the extent of unplugging my computer and phone whenever I'm not in the office) makes it impossible to work with her. Is my willingness to start a formal complaints procedure against her a sign that I'm not a good team player?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

Well, he needs to come to the UK ASAP because there's a pair of lawsuits against him in the High Court [1, 2]. My wife never trusted this man; she had good reasons not to. He's a manipulative liar who's breaking things for Microsoft and then making excuses for Microsoft. It's the same kind of sociopathy we spoke about this morning in relation to the EPO (European Patent Office).

To repeat what we pointed out earlier today, he has a long history of very serious abuse in IRC. The first and only time we muted someone in IRC (since 2008) was him "who would later hijack other people's accounts and impersonate them in our IRC networks (to defame them). What impression will this leave on High Court judges?"

Look what sorts of people he chooses to associate with (Microsoft payroll). █

Related: Brett Wilson LLP [Repeatedly] Does Not Deny Microsoft or Another "Third Party" Secretly Funds the SLAPPs Against Techrights, Bankrolling Despicable People Who Deserve Criticism