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China Cleans Up Spam Problem
angry tapir writes "It's been a few years coming, but it looks like China may finally be getting a handle on its spam problem. Once the largest source of the world's spam, China has been gradually fading off the list of the world's top spam-producers. Right now Cisco Systems' IronPort group ranks it at number 18 in terms of spam-producing countries. That's a big drop from two years ago, when it consistently ranked in the top five."
It's not like they didn't have the existing hardware and infrastructure for a huge firewall or something.
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They're just discovering outsourcing.
And that article was a dupe from the 2001 when everyone started blocking mail from Korea because it was mostly spam. The US was the origin of the first spam, and has constantly been the biggest producer of spam since then, no matter what people's perceptions are. Currently Turkey seems to be on the up, but you can bet that it is still well behind the US.
I don't know where they are getting their sources but their listed references say nothing about chinas ranking. See
http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries.lasso
China is still number 2.
China has more Internet users than any other nation (420 million), so being down at number 18 for spam seems quite good.
Is it a coincidence that google "loses" 150.000 GMail accounts, and suddenly China cleans up it's spam problem?
E-mail is free and can pass more than a single sentence, unlike SMS.
Facebook is like TV: no one I give a damn about uses either of them.
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And that article was a dupe from the 2001 when everyone started blocking mail from Korea because it was mostly spam. The US was the origin of the first spam, and has constantly been the biggest producer of spam since then, no matter what people's perceptions are. Currently Turkey seems to be on the up, but you can bet that it is still well behind the US.
The US is also the origin of the first non-spam email, and has constantly been the biggest producer of non-spam emails. Simple fact of the matter is, the US has the most computers, and the most infected computers.
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According to the (slightly out-of-date) article, the whole of Europe sends less spam than the US. I'm quite sure there are more computers in Europe than in the US, as the population is more than 60% larger (only counting EU. The spam level in the article is likely about the whole continent, which has about 130% the population of the US), and the developement level is similar.
Our stats show China at #8. The top 10 for us are:
The last three are all 1.3% because of rounding, but the order really is China - Vietnam - Poland.