RE: Earthquake in Asia, Spam Plummets

["Barry Greene \(bgreene\)" <bgreene () cisco com>]

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.  

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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:
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> John Levine:
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> [snip]
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> 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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