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RE: Earthquake in Asia, Spam Plummets
From: "Barry Greene \(bgreene\)" <bgreene () cisco com>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:46:54 -0800
I'm just not seeing the data to support this assertion. In fact, my work in the region points to Asian on Asian cybercrime (Phishing, DOS/extortion, SPAM, etc.) - especially within language/Internet boundaries as the big problem. I think the real problem is the "security media" does not speak/read Chinese, Korean, Malay/Bahasia, Japanese - so they are not seeing what is really happening. ________________________________ From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org on behalf of Juha-Matti Laurio Sent: Fri 12/29/2006 1:09 PM To: Fergie; funsec () linuxbox org Subject: Re: [funsec] Earthquake in Asia, Spam Plummets Netcraft's related entry and diagram here: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/12/27/taiwan_earthquake_limits_access_to_chinese_hosts.html - Juha-Matti Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Levine: [snip] An earthquake on Tuesday near Taiwan caused widespread disruption to telephone and Internet networks. The quake affected an area of the sea bottom with a lot of undersea cables that broke, and since there is only a limited number of cable repair ships, it will take at least weeks to fish them up and splice them. China and Korea were heavily affected, with most of their connectivity to the rest of the world cut off. Not surprisingly, this meant that the rest of the world got a lot less spam, too. Neither country is the haven for overt spammers that it used to be, but both have large broadband networks with vast numbers of virus controlled zombie computers. One large network in North America saw their mail from Korea drop by 90% and from China by 99%. Since the mail sent from those countries to the US is typically 99% spam and 1% legitimate mail, the earthquake's effect on e-mail was, to a first approximation, to get rid of a lot of spam. Brett Glass, a journalist who runs a small rural ISP in Wyoming, noted that if the affected countries dealt more effectively with their spam, they might not well have needed all of the capacity they'd lost. [snip] More: http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/earthquake.html - - ferg
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- Earthquake in Asia, Spam Plummets Fergie (Dec 28)
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- Re: Earthquake in Asia, Spam Plummets Juha-Matti Laurio (Dec 29)
- RE: Earthquake in Asia, Spam Plummets Barry Greene (bgreene) (Dec 29)