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E_Zapata Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 12:24 PM
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Calling BBV activists: Weird e-mail from Bev Harris' publisher
Edited on Sat Oct-11-03 12:26 PM by E_Zapata
(Or it says it is from david at plan 9 publishing).

Just got a very weird email ...not an html....but very little text and it was like 11K in size.

It simply says:

From: Hacked by: sh0k3



Please all users visit http://_________________



- Hacked by: sh0k3 Staff

=========================================================
You're receiving this email because you're a registered user of . We
hope that this email didn't disturbed you and in some manner contributes to improve our services.

-------------------Okay,

1. if this was from David, surely he would have put some sort of explanation in there.

2. I deleted the name of the site it says to visit........simply because it's probably a lead to some site that is bound to completely trash our computers OR secretly install spyware.

3. Notice the disclaimer blurb at the bottom of the e-mail. They leave blank: 'because you are a registered user of ___________'

4. I am not on the email list for plan9; I was on the list for bbv.com

5. Luckily, there was no attachment to the email (that I could see)

AND

6. IF this is from david at plan 9 via bev or any other BBV activist.......don't send people cryptic friggin emails that seem to have more bytes than is reasonable for a few sentences and that have some very cryptic stuff in it.....that tells me to go to a website with the word 'hate' in it!

We have to know beyond any doubt that the emails we get are REAL.............geeze

Why do I feel like I am going to turn my computer off today and it will never start again? I just have a real bad feeling about this.......

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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 12:26 PM
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1. can you call the publisher?
Maybe his email address book has been hacked.
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BevHarris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 03:24 PM
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15. THE E-MAIL WAS HACKED. So was the site.
There is only one company that wants us off the web this badly.
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shance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 03:32 PM
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17. Hi Bev. This looks pretty serious. What can we do?
n/t
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 03:35 PM
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18. Using information from the hackers source code....
can this be traced and reported to some legal entity? Aren't what they are doing illegal?
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BevHarris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 05:27 PM
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27. It's a felony
I'll talk to David about filing some reports.
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Occulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 12:28 PM
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2. the link doesn't work.
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nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 12:28 PM
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3. I would think that
David could manage a gramatically correct message. This sounds like english is a second language:

We hope that this email didn't disturbed you and in some manner contributes to improve our services.


of course, spammers can do all kinds of stuff with headers. at my office we constantly get mail from apparently inside email accounts but clearly are spam and/or viruses.


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hedda_foil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 12:29 PM
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4. I got it too.
I couldn't find any tracking headers on it. Did anyone else?
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 12:31 PM
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5. Dipshit script kiddie
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 12:40 PM
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6. What the heck was that?
Just wondering. Looked like a guy talking to himself in his own forum. And mad. How did BBV yank his chain? Or was it mad cow?
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 12:52 PM
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9. It's just the sort of chest-thumping wankery
all script kiddies do. They're always belittling each other. Public recognition of their supreme hacking skillz is what each of them crave. It's just a teenaged dick-measuring sport where they don't have to do something as terrifying as actually whipping out their dicks.
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BevHarris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 03:30 PM
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16. This is not script kiddies. Do not minimize this --
Understand something, gang -- if it is script kiddies, someone had them do it. the .com site was pulled offline just a week ago due to a fake spam letter sent under our name. Now this. The .ORG site has been pulled twice, the first time for a "spam" that was a press release sent to an opt-in list (I'm sure one of our "friends" opted in and then filed Spamcop -- and Tiger Tech, the ISP, refused to disclose who did the complaint so I had to dump a list of 450 opt-ins!!!) Then the .org site got pulled down with a bullshit DMCA letter that took the historic step of claiming copyright to a two-deep link.

This is not something to be minimized. These people are afraid.

What I do know is that I need to keep the activist list out of the blackboxvoting.com e-mail server, since that is such a target. All the volunteers activists e-mails appear to have been lost.

Vancouver. Hong Kong -- if anyone finds evidence that this traces back there, let me know immediately.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 03:58 PM
Response to Reply #16
20. This is a script kiddy
It's the same one hit DU awhile ago.
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w4rma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 04:53 PM
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21. Maybe a Freeper script kiddy? I can see a royalist pulling something
Edited on Sat Oct-11-03 04:53 PM by w4rma
like this because it could help keep King George on the throne.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 05:02 PM
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22. Bev check your PM please.
.
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nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 05:06 PM
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23. check your PMs too Mari....

was hoping (along with Guy) to get your voice on the Guy James Show today re: your son and Stop Loss atrocities....

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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 05:19 PM
Response to Reply #23
24. oops sorry I was sleeping, a mess
we are talking to Carl Levins office and on Monday I hope we get feedback from DC....PM me again if u want
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DrBlix Donating Member (148 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 12:47 PM
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8. I got it also
Went to site posted here and "revenge" a list of sites they plan to take down Bev's site was listed. Just delete it don't even open it if you haven't already.
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Capn Sunshine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 12:42 PM
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7. I got it too
I forwarded a copy to David. FWIW.

That sh0k3 guy is crusin for a bruisin.
Someone should enlighten his/her parents.
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Bozola Donating Member (992 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 01:08 PM
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10. Send the email and the link to the FBI....

They LUV these sleazeball hackers.
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E_Zapata Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 01:17 PM
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11. KICK
to give notice to others who will receive this email.

that link to shok03's site where he is foaming at the mouth and claims he owns "bbv.com" is creepy. But at this point, the bbv.com people should have closed the door to hijackings.

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shance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 01:22 PM
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12. I went to the BBV website
Its apparently been hacked as well.

If anyone can contact Bev or David, of course Im sure they are fully aware of the situation, but I think it would be good to check in with them.
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 02:11 PM
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13. A kick for David and/or Bev
:kick:
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 02:14 PM
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14. I got it, too, and I posted the email message source over here.
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Kelvin Mace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 03:51 PM
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19. You know, its a goddamn shame
That a person can't go to lunch without having to lug along a laptop to watch his site.

Thanks for the heads up folks, I am working on fixing Diebold's latest attack.

And yes, DIEBOLD. Who the hell else has a reason?

Diebold AccuVote Ingredients

Taxpayer money.................$5000
Security Flaws....................328
Critical Security Flaws.........26
CEO commitments to
deliver election to GOP........1
Tamper-proof Paper ballots...0
Tamper-friendly digital
ballots................................At least 32MB
Your actual vote..................None of your business.
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JasonBerry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 05:19 PM
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25. Be Careful
I'm sympathetic to this being looked at, but we sure don't want your making these kind of public accusations as it takes away from your "high road" if it was not Diebold. Credibility is already a question mark for BBV as it's accused of being run by "conspiracy theorists.". Why put yourself at such a blatant legal risk? We need you to continue - not to be in court wasting money defending yourself because you couldn't hold your tongue. Or, fingers, as it were.
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Oilwellian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 05:24 PM
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26. I didn't get the email
Do you keep different activist lists?
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BevHarris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-03 05:33 PM
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28. The only e-mails accessible were those I had not yet downloaded
I think. And I'm very sorry ANY were accessible, and will take steps to use a different route next time.

Bev
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