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| Source |  Errata Security |
|---|---|
| Identifiant | 246280 |
| Date de publication | 2016-11-03 00:20:33 (vue: 2016-11-03 00:20:33) |
| Titre | In which I have to debunk a second time |
| Texte | So Slate is doubling-down on their discredited story of a secret Trump server. Tip for journalists: if you are going to argue against an expert debunking your story, try to contact that expert first, so they don't have to do what I'm going to do here, showing obvious flaws.The experts didn't find anythingThe story claims:"I spoke with many DNS experts. They found the evidence strongly suggestive of a relationship between the Trump Organization and the bank".No, you didn't. You gave experts limited information and asked them whether it's consistent with your conspiracy theory. Of course it's consistent with almost any conspiracy theory you want to concoct. What you didn't ask is for experts to try to disprove the theory.Go back and ask Chris Davis and Paul Vixie which is more credible, your version of events, or my version. I will vouch that these two are really top experts in this field, and you should trust them.This is why people quoted in the press need to go through "media training", to avoid getting your reputation harmed by bad journalists who try their best to put words in your mouth. You'll be trained to recognize bad journalists like this, and how not to get sucked into their fabrications.Jean Camp isn't an expertOn the other hand, Jean Camp isn't an expert. I've never heard of her before. She gets details wrong. Take for example in this blogpost of here's where she discusses strange lookups. Specifically, she comments on lookups for the domain mail.trump-email.com.moscow.alfaintra.net. She says:This query is unusual in that is merges two hostnames into one. It makes the most sense as a human error in inserting a new hostname in some dialog window, but neglected to hit the backspace to delete the old hostname.Uh, no. It's normal DNS behavior with non-FQDNs. If the lookup for a name fails, computers will try again, pasting the local domain on the end. In other words, when Twitter's DNS was taken offline by the DDoS attack a couple weeks ago, those monitoring DNS saw a zillion lookups for names like "www.twitter.com.example.com".I don't know what Jean Camp is an expert of, but this is sorta a basic DNS concept. It's surprising she'd get it wrong. Of course, she may be an expert in DNS who simply had a brain fart (this happens to all of us), but looking across her posts and tweets, she doesn't seem to be somebody who has a lot of experience with DNS.Call up your own IT department at Slate. Ask your IT nerds if this is how DNS operates. Note: I'm saying your average, unremarkable IT nerds can debunk an "expert" you quote in your story.There is no IP address limitationThe story repeats the theory, which I already debunked, that the server has a weird configuration that limits who can talk to it:The scientists theorized that the Trump and Alfa Bank servers had a secretive relationship after testing the behavior of mail1.trump-email.com using sites like Pingability. When they attempted to ping the site, they received the message “521 lvpmta14.lstrk.net does not accept mail from you.â€No, that's how Listrake (who is the one who actually controls the server) configures all their marketing servers. Anybody can confirm this themselves by ping all the servers in this range: |
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