Attack of the Ronbots!

Confirmed: Someone is illegally spamming the internet on behalf of Ron Paul and they're using a botnet of hijacked computers from all over the world to do it.

A few days ago this mass emailing was conducted. Subject lines were randomly selected from a list of approximately 17. The spam actually created it's own fake first & last name as sender, but the addresses of compromised computers were exposed. Some of those emails ended up in the inbox of a computer forensic expert at the University of Alabama, Gary Warner, who broke the story on his blog and to Wired.

This is a dark, but pivotal moment for the "netroots." After all, It marks the first time the internet has a had a global, presidential spam campaign. Heck, you might be participating and not even know it.

It also reminds of something else I had never seen: a 3,000+ dugg Ron Paul story that never quite made it to Digg's homepage. Take a look at it and I think you'll understand why!