I read this article and came away very confused (I am not computer savvy in the least). Can anyone tell me what this means? Does this mean someone was paid to put out spam in Ron Paul's name? Who would do this?
http://slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/2007/12/05/ro...
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Here, I can confuse you further...
Here is a better summary writeup:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071205/tc_infoworld/93839
I have also read the report written by security expert Joe Stewart at
http://www.secureworks.com/research/threats/ronpaul/?threat=...
The salient facts seem to be:
-- a Ukranian botnet involving 3,000 infected computers has been shut down. It was used to send spam email to millions of people on the internet.
-- This botnet sent out Ron Paul oriented spam messages from October 27 through October 30th to a list of some 162M email addresses. The puupose of the mailing was not clear. (It could have been to try to support the campaign or to try and make the campaign look bad or perhaps to get people to open messages that then plied other bogus goods or services.)
-- Some unknown person probably paid the operator of the botnet somewhere between $100 and $1000 to perform this operation. This was a rather small task compared to other spam operations carried out by the botnet.
There is no evidence that this isolated incidence has had any impact on the 2008 Presidential campaign other than to provide fodder for some blog sites that want to implicate Ron Paul in this so-called scandal or to imply that Ron Paul's extensive support accross the internet is not real.
Spam Story
"On the weekend of October 27, 2007, the Internet was suddenly bombarded with a rash of spam emails promoting U.S. presidential candidate Ron Paul."
Is this a true story? Can somebody post some links that corroborate this? If such a bot spamming did actually happen it could be from the following:
1. Misguided supporter who wanted to help the campaign.
2. Anti-Paul individual or group wanting to discredit the RP movement.
Spam Story
I read something a few days ago (if this is the same spam) and it turned out to be something accidentally done, and the computer was in another country. I don't even think the person sent out the emails. I think he posted somewhere (like a blog or something) in support of RP and the feeds picked it up...IF, I'm not mistaken...If I can find the article, I'll post the link.
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just people making stuff up
They're trying to pretend they have facts that we're carrying out automated/mass email spam campaigns for Dr. Paul. They have no facts and it's all bullcrap.
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Makes no sense really
these bot networks can not vote in polls (generally), can not text in votes and can not send 10s of thousands of *unique* emails. If everyone got a single email millions of times over, that would be a different story. Basically they are hoping everyone who reads this doesnt know what the hell it means, cuz its really doesnt make sense. its not what these botnets do at all. at all.
Brian Davis
Director of I.T.
Delray Beach, FL (originally Las Vegas, NV)