Posted on 11/01/2007 9:58:37 AM PDT by Salo
Spambots Behind Ron Paul Campaign
November 1st, 2007
Ars Technica reports that University of Alabama-Birmingham’s computer forensics research department started looking into a slew of Ron Paul support e-mails it started receiving at it’s lab.
From the report:
The e-mails originated from IPs all over the world, but researchers’ suspicions were aroused when they found that the e-mails purported to come from different countries than their IPs indicated. Messages claiming to come from the US were actually coming from Korea, for example, and messages claiming to come from Italy were actually coming from the US. The pattern showed that the messages were clearly not coming from Ron Paul’s official campaign, but rather illegitimate spam operations and botnets.
“We’ve seen many previous e-mails reported as spam from other campaigns or parties, but when we’ve investigated them, they all were sent from the legitimate parties,” department director Gary Warner said in a statement. In contrast, the Ron Paul messages clearly came from a number of other parties attempting to spoof where they came from. Paul’s campaign may run afoul of the authorities as a result of these e-mails. Warner believes that the messages may violate the CAN-SPAM Act due to their deceptive sending practices.
This meshes well with a report I have from a friend in the IT industry who started looking into comment spam on his blog from supposed “Ron Paul supporters”. When he started looking back into their IP’s they were all spoofed to look unique but actually came from the exact same place.
A report also appears in Wired magazine on the subject.
You’ve always suspected, now you know.....
Pings.
Attention Ron Paul supporters...line up here for your Kool-Aid ...
“Wait....you mean RoPaul really doesn’t have fifty million supporters in these here fifty States?”
Yes he does.
The problem is that they are all from Roswell, NM.
Eleventy Billion supporters!!!!!! Anyone who says otherwise is a republicrat conspiring against him!!!!
Text message polling from Korea has to be at an all time high during Republican debates!
The propped up idiot by the naive, ignorant, foolish, anti-war, druggies, MoveOn and Soros. Most of us are not fooled.
Oh, you are so busted: I got a mail from a RP Fluff Girl than named you by name as a plant in Fox News. :-)
You’re being oppressed.
FYI ^_^
Guess George W Bush and Extremely Extreme ARE workers for the Clinton Chinese Mafia, just as I have saying all along. This is too obvious.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
A plant, a Romney supporter, a Fred Thompson supporter, a Huckabee supporter, a paid Luntz disruptor etc... I have been called it all!
All except an undecided voter of course. Threats against my life for calling Ron Paul certifiably insane does not win over friends these days I guess ;)
Ron Paul responds:
“Spam doesn’t exist, anyone that reads the US Constitution understands there is not a single mention, therefore its not real.”
(chuckle)
“Bots can’t vote”
You sure? Dead people vote in Seattle, St Louis, Chicago, etc.
We can expect more of this, it is one of the Dems time bombs and will be exploited to it’s fullest potential. They want RP to be our Ralph Nader.
Nooooooooooooooooooo!
Look into the history of one VIKRAM BUDDHI, a Pakistani National/Grad Student, who used Purdue University’s computers to steal THOUSANDS of internet ID’s, and spammed MILLIONS of Anti-Bush postings on numerous message boards and chat rooms during the 2004 election cycle.
The Feds finally got him when his mouth stepped over the line and he called for the assassination of the President.
He was convicted of NUMEROUS Federal crimes and his sentencing is currently scheduled for Nov. 2th in the Hammond, Indiana Federal Court, after already being postponed once.
(IF he is still in the country....)
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