Earthquake Knocks Out Spammers

A story on The Register just made me chuckle. Apparently the earthquake in Taiwan in late December knocked out eight submarine fibre-optic cables on the seafloor of the Bashi channel between Taiwan and the Philippines, causing severe disruption to Internet and telephone networks in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, South Korea, and Japan. Fortunately, this has resulted in the following:

Keen spam watchers and connoisseurs of this nefarious inbox abuse will note the inclusion of spam-producing nations China and Korea in the above list, and the quake’s damage to their telecommunications infrastructure means these countries have not made the list of major spam sources this month for the first time in living memory.

I understand that a lot of spam is sent by botnets, but I can never understand why it’s not possible to track down whoever is pulling the strings of the botnets. It seems a shame that the only way to effectively reduce the amount of spam produced is to rely upon an act of nature!

More: The Register

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