[68091] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Geography of Spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue Mar 2 17:40:17 2004
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20040302145201.043f07c0@diablo.cisco.com>
Cc: sgorman1@gmu.edu, nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 17:39:37 -0500
To: Michael Airhart <mairhart@cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 2 Mar 2004, at 15:57, Michael Airhart wrote:
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> 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.
Well, the report "Broadband Internet Access in OECD Countries" shows
that in 2002 only 36% of all broadband internet users were in the US.
That's a greater proportion than any other single country, but
according to that report most broadband subscribers are not in the US.
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-239660A2.pdf
The quoted report said "the U.S. routes more spam e-mail traffic than
the rest of the world combined", not "... than any other single
country".
So it appears there might be other forces at work than simply "more
broadband users".
Joe
