'Criminal' Botnet Stumps for Ron Paul, Researchers Allege.
The article describes a run-of-the-mill spam tactic which probably violates the CAN SPAM act.
I'll leave the truth or fiction of this to moment when I've got more time. I just want to point out a few things.
1. The Picture of Ron Paul looking pissed is snuggled up to the word "Criminal."
2. The headline's grammer is TORTURED to lead with the word "Criminal" and push the word "Allege" to the end of the line. It would read more naturally as "Researchers Allege 'Criminal' Botnet Stumps for Ron Paul".
3. The meat of the article is, especially for a tech magazine, pretty darn ignorant of spam tactics and peppered with innuendo.... The criminality is arguable and yet its the lead. Ron Paul's organization seems totally unaware of it but that's at the bottom of the page.... The author implies (almost simply says) that Ron Paul's popularity is a result of technical manipulation of the internet. check out the lead sentence:
"If Texas congressman Ron Paul is elected president in 2008, he may be the first leader of the free world put into power with the help of a global network of hacked PCs spewing spam, according to computer-security researchers who've analyzed a recent flurry of e-mail supporting the long-shot Republican candidate. "
It turns out to be about a few hundred spam messages!!!
I've grown extremely used to these types of tactics in main stream news. Let's face it main stream news sucks. It's heavily and unabashedly biased and no longer seems concerned with the presentation of supporting facts. But tech magazines...? Huh? Who is this headline for? It seems like it may be an attempt to drive some of the Ron Paul Google traffic at best and a paid slander at worst.... Regardless, its pretty bizarre for it to show up on Wired!
Do you think so?
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