MetaFilter posts tagged with Botnet

Inside the "Ron Paul" Spam Botnet.

chunking express — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:04:01 -0800

Inside the "Ron Paul" Spam Botnet. This is a pretty interesting look at how botnets work in general.

Ron Paul Spam

brownpau — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:16:05 -0800

When Ron Paul email spam started hitting inboxes in late October, UAB Computer Forensics Directory Gary Warner published findings on the spam's textual patterns and the illicit botnet used to spread it -- findings which were picked up by media outlets and tech websites like Salon, Ars Technica, and Wired Magazine's "Threat Level" blog, the latter in a set of followup posts by writer Sarah Stirland: 1, 2, 3. The Ron Paul fan response was swift and decisive: clearly the botnet was the work of anti-Ron Paul hackers trying to discredit his campaign, and Rudy Giuliani had paid Stirland (and not UAB Computer Forensics) to do a smear piece -- as claimed by a YouTube video pointing to posts on RudyGiulianiForum.com. Thus proving, once again, that the Ron Paul campaign's greatest liability is not so much his far-right conspiracy-driven antifederal libertarianism, but rather the spittle-flecked anger of his own noisiest supporters. Beets are great! Ron Paul!