Backdoor found in Diebold Voting Tabulators

Eric Murray ericm at lne.com
Tue Aug 31 12:29:01 PDT 2004


On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:30:35AM -0400, Sunder wrote:
> Oops! Is that a cat exiting the bag?
> 
> 
> http://www.blackboxvoting.org/?q=node/view/78


Apparently so.  Going to www.blackboxvoting.org now just gives:

This Account Has Been Suspended
Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.


Interestingly, while the whois info is gone, the DNS records are 
still around:

% dig blackboxvoting.org any

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> blackboxvoting.org any 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 6, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 3
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      blackboxvoting.org, type = ANY, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
blackboxvoting.org.     4H IN A         69.73.175.26
blackboxvoting.org.     4H IN NS        ns4.nocdirect.com.
blackboxvoting.org.     4H IN NS        ns2.nocdirect.com.
blackboxvoting.org.     4H IN NS        ns3.nocdirect.com.
blackboxvoting.org.     4H IN SOA       ns3.nocdirect.com. admin.nocdirect.com. (
                                        2004081101      ; serial
                                        4H              ; refresh
                                        2H              ; retry
                                        5w6d16h         ; expiry
                                        1D )            ; minimum

blackboxvoting.org.     4H IN MX        0 blackboxvoting.org.





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