Nenastnyj vs Ron Paul

SecureWorks' Joe Stewart recently revealed that the culprit behind October's Ron Paul spamming was a low-level spammer-for-hire known as nenastnyj. I'm not saying there's a vast neocon/communist conspiracy or anything, but using the same transliteration system taught by the Defense Language Institute, nenastnyj is a Russian word meaning "rainy." The botnet software used by nenastnyj was also Russian--or at least CIS--and probably controlled by a server in one of the CIS nations. The likelihood of this all being coincidence is fair, since DLI has probably trained tens of thousands of Russian translators over the years and is almost certainly not the only entity to teach this particular system. It might even be taught by Russian universities. I just thought it was interesting enough to share.

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