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Re: The Geography of Spam

  • From: Joe Abley
  • Date: Tue Mar 02 17:41:52 2004 
On 2 Mar 2004, at 15:57, Michael Airhart wrote:




[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.



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