Ron Paul Spam Traced to Reactor Botnet

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? writes "Ars is reporting that the Ron Paul spam has been traced back to the Reactor botnet. According to the SecureWorks report, which originally identified the spammer, someone calling themselves nenastnyj was behind it and their botnet control server has been shut down. The Ron Paul campaign has previously denied any connection with this spam campaign."

Comments

Re:I don't for a minute believe this was unofficia

[CRCulver]

It don't matter if your campaign is a favourite of spammers and white supremacists, as long as you make some vague promises of libertarianism that you can't possible enact without congressional support, then Slashdotters will adore you.

as I thought

[vsync64]

They've tracked down the spammer and the software and configuration used. It's all about email and nothing about Web polls, let alone text message polls. So can the lies about "spamming the polls" please stop now? Thanks FOX.

Denied connections

[Tsiangkun]

The Ron Paul campaign has previously denied any connection with this spam campaign.

Has the Ron Paul campaign denied any connection to the Republican Party ?

Yeah, that's kind of a big thing in some circles. You see, the Republican party had complete control of my national government, and fucked up everything from our ability to respond to domestic crisis, to our ability to resolve international issues at the bargaining table. My country's constitution has been broken. International treaties have been broken. Some of my freedoms have been taken, while others have been reduced. I like the way that free speech can now be limited to designated freedom zones when it suits the ruling class.

In the post 9-11 world, voting for the republican party empowers the terrorist organization that most threatens the citizens of the United States of America.

Re:I don't for a minute believe this was unofficia

[stuartkahler]

Your link goes to a bill that tries to clarify when a sperm and egg shall constitute a human being. At the moment, it's a zygote or a baby depending on the whim of the mother or prosecuting attorney. There's no consistency. It's NOT a ban on abortion, though it could lead to Roe v Wade being overturned, putting abortion law back to the way it was before then.

As a congressman, he often brings bills to the floor to force a vote and close a debate that is eating up time. Dr. No votes against many of his own bills.

As a congressman, part of his job is to secure money from the $27billion earmark fund for his own district. It's a dedicated part of the budget, every congressman is obligated to get their share. He still votes against the bills that contain the earmarks. He even voted against the bill that contained his own earmark for shrimp marketing.

Internet... He wants it untaxed and unregulated. What does a /. poster dislike about that?

Withdrawing from international organizations... We have many of our laws dictated to us by multinational organizations. It's an attack on our sovreignty. Ron Paul is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Economics... He got into politics because of his interest in economic theory. He's been on the House Banking Committee, the Joint Economic Committee, and the Committee on Financial Services. He delights in dragging the federal reserve chairman to the House to berate him for the secretive manipulation of the US$. And the Wall Street traders cheer him on.

Evidently, Ron's supporters are racist, too

[spun]

Selective enforcement of laws and institutionalized racism ensure that blacks will be incarcerated for doing the same damn things a white man will get away with. You mention that statistic as if it indicts blacks. It does not. It just points out how incredibly racist the US still is. The fact that you mention it just points out the incredible bias in the minds of most Ron Paul supporters.