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Security experts have shut down a botnet that sent out almost 200 million spam messages supporting the Republican presidential candidate from Texas. However, after careful analysis, researchers have determined that, while delightfully elfin, Ron Paul is not a 1337 hacker. "It probably wasn't even set up by a Ron Paul supporter," said Joe Stewart, a senior security researcher with SecureWorks. "This whole system has been around since 2004. This [spam] somehow just landed in this underground spam economy." Maybe Ron should look into one of these bad boys.

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