[conspire] govdelivery.com Re: Official November 6 General Election Information

[Tony Godshall]

San Francisco MTA uses them:

https://www.sfmta.com/about-us/contact-us/email-and-text-alerts

I'm guessing it's a company that sells services to government and
quasigovernmental agencies.


On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 8:34 AM Michael Paoli
<Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> Yes, risks ...
> govdelivery.com ?
>
> Who/what is that, and ought it be (dis)trusted, or at least
> viewed with lots of skepticism?
>
> First of all, claiming to be official from State of California,
> it's not state.ca.us, nor is is ca.gov ... but ...
> govdelivery.com ... which in theory is an arbitrary commercial
> enterprise ... and could well be spammer or scammer or hoax or fake
> or whatever
>
> > From: "California Secretary of State" <casos at public.govdelivery.com>
> > Subject: Official November 6 General Election Information
> > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:51:41 +0000
>
> At least most of the URLs within are ca.gov ... but still.
>
> And whois? ...
> Not that that's highly reliable data, but ...
> Registrant Organization: Granicus, LLC
> Registrant State/Province: Colorado
> Registrant Country: US
> Certainly not anything official state of California, ... heck, not
> even California, nor US government nor even something that claims to be
> so ... except for the email that was sent which claims to represent ...
> Yeah, dumb way to do it.  Heck, they could always delegate some sub-domain
> if they want to use some commercial service/vendor for sending out official
> mass emailings.
> And of course it's not PGP signed or the like either, has some DKIM
> in headers, but of course that's for govdelivery.com, so that
> does nothing to attribute it back to anything State of California.
>
> Yes, we've seen this kind of thing before (and over, and over).
>
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