[68090] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Geography of Spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Airhart)
Tue Mar 2 15:56:47 2004
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 14:57:17 -0600
To: sgorman1@gmu.edu
From: Michael Airhart <mairhart@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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>[snip]
Somehow it seems like when you take into account the number of PCs on high
speed connections, these numbers make a lot of sense. The US has a large
population of these PCs so yeah, duh, the US leads in compromised hosts.
IMO, what would be a really useful "report" or "study" is to expose the
companies that are actually making money from "spam" advertising. If it
didn't work, these companies would hire firms to spam. Follow the
money. Where does it go? How can legal avenues be used to make spam as
expensive direct mail or telemarketing? (lawsuits, criminal prosecution, ?)
IMO
Michael
(speaking only for myself, ignore my @domain)
>anti-virus firm Sophos. The study concludes that most of the unsolicited
>junk e-mails originate in Russia and then passes through hacked computers
>in the U.S. "More than 30% of the world's spam is sent from these
>compromised computers, underlining the need for a coordinated approach to
>spam and viruses," said Charles Cousins, Sophos' Asia managing director .
>The U.S. accounts for a whopping 56% of the global spam pie, followed by
>Canada with 6.8%. Europe did not fair very well in the report either, with
>the Netherlands (5th), Germany (7th), France (8th), the U.K. (9th) and
>Spain (12th) all making the list.
>http://www.sophos.com/spaminfo/articles/dirtydozen.html
