Star Three of Four Undersea Internet Lines Severed
Linked by weildish on Sat 20th Dec 2008 00:24 UTC
Internet & Networking Though the cause is still unknown, three of the four undersea Internet cables that run from North America to Asia were cut, causing outages in Egypt, India, Saudi Arabia, and a dozen or so other countries. That is a lot of angry World of Warcraft players. It's supposed to have been from ships' anchors, though even two downed cables at one time is very rare, so who's to say it wasn't sabotage?
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RE: Spam
by irbis on Mon 22nd Dec 2008 03:07 UTC in reply to "Spam"
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It is a myth that Asia and the third world would be most guilty for spam when the western world, and especially the USA, is as big if not often bigger source for spam. Besides, people guilty for spam seem to be a relatively small bunch of criminals on only.

Origin of spam (according to Wikipedia):

As much as 80% of spam received by Internet users in North America and Europe can be traced to fewer than 200 spammers.

In terms of volume of spam the major sources of spam in the third quarter of 2008 were:
* The United States (18.9%)
* Russia (8.3%)
* Turkey (8.2%)
* China (5.4%)
* Brazil (4.5%)

When grouped by continents, spam comes mostly from:
* Asia (39.8%)
* Europe (23.9%)
* North America (21.8%)
* South America (13.2%)

In terms of number of IP addresses the biggest spammer countries are: the United States, China, and Russia, followed by Japan, Canada, and South Korea.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam#Origin_of_spam

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