Ron Paul email sent to millions of addresses originated with a commercial spammer, according to the tech site ARS Technica:
In a report published this week by security firm SecureWorks, researchers reveal that the recent flurry of Ron Paul spam originated from a Reactor botnet controlled by a commercial spammer through a colocation facility in the US.* * * * *
SecureWorks collaborated with network administrators to analyze the traffic from some of the computers infected with Srizbi that were responsible for sending the Ron Paul spam. This allowed the researchers to discover the location from which the botnet was operated--a colocation facility in the US.
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Although it's likely that somebody paid nenastnyj to transmit the Ron Paul spam, there is no evidence to indicate that it was anyone directly associated with the Ron Paul campaign.
Read it all, along with links to the original research report, at the link above. Since these folks send spam to make money, either someone paid for it or the spammer himself is a big Paul-head.
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