China Popular For Hosting Spammed Sites
from the not-sure-why dept
A new study has come out pointing out that a huge percentage (71%) of websites in spam messages point to servers hosted in China. This doesn't mean that the spammers are Chinese or that the companies they're advertising are Chinese - but it appears that's where many spamvertised companies decide to host their websites. What's odd about this, of course, is that China is notoriously strict about what can be done on the internet in China, and many of these spammed sites include porn and other things the Chinese government isn't particularly fond of. In the end, it looks like something of an economic decision: hosting is cheaper in China, and that's the end of the story. It will be interesting to see if Chinese authorities start cracking down on these spamvertised sites.
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God Bless Hormel
The history and colorful links about spam can be found here: http://www.spam.com/
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I don't get spam anymore now though as my new Email address is not given to companies I buy stuff from (I use the format company@mydomain.com for an alias, and this is how I proved that buy.com sells Email addresses as I got spam to buy.com@mydomain.com) or posted on newsgroups.
The only spam I still get to another address is my hostmaster@mydomain.com which used in my WHOIS records.
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William sings the hits
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We're gonna rock this town alive
I'll let her rough me up
Till she knocks me out
She walks like she talks,
And she talks like she walks
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As long as its all outgoing, Chinese ISPs get money, which is good for China. The spam disrupts the rest of the evil capitalistic world, which is good for China.
They can even earn some PR goodwill by catching a couple of ISPs and stopping 0.00002% of the traffic.
And if the rest of the world eventually cuts China off from net access because of it...its what China wants.
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