*Look, Justice Department guys, take your guns and badges,
go to Florida, and arrest them and try them.
The entire world will thank you for it.
You know where Florida is, right? It's north
of Guantanamo.
bruces
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=28700163
An analysis by messaging-filtering vendor CipherTrust says the large majority of the world's spam comes from a few spammers within the United States.
By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News
A survey released Thursday said that nearly all the world's spam is spewed by a limited number of hard-core spammers within the United States.
Based on analysis of the spam it blocked for its 1,000-plus clients during May, June, and July, message filtering firm CipherTrust said that 86% of all spam originated in the United States.
Although U.S.-based IP addresses accounted for only 28% of the total addresses used to spam–tying South Korea for the top spot–spammers overwhelmingly favor U.S. domains. Messages from Korean IP addresses, in comparison, accounted for just 3% of all spam. Similarly, China and Hong Kong, where about 23% of all spamming IP addresses reside, account for just 2.6% of all spam.
"That was quite a surprise," said Dmitri Alperovitch, a research engineer at CipherTrust. "The percentage of spamming IP addresses within the U.S. is in line with other surveys, but in the actual number of messages, the U.S. is responsible for the vast bulk of spam."
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Although the United States has anti-spam laws in place at both the states and federal levels–the latter through the Can-Spam Act that went into effect in January–critics have said that fighting spam locally doesn't do any good when the problem's global.
CipherTrust's numbers may mean it's possible to put at least a partial lid on spam through laws and enforcement solely within the United States. "Enforcement of Can-Spam could go a very long way toward reducing spam," Alperovitch said.
