esllou - 8:41 pm on Aug 27, 2009 (gmt 0)

Until we get some internet laws that every country must obey we will continue to have people in countries other than the U.S. do whatever they want.

there are far tougher laws in several countries (European ones for example) than the cop-out legislation currently on the books in the States, the result of endless rounds of lobbying and dilution.

also, this might interest you:

[scmagazineus.com...]

The United States sends out more spam than any other country in the world, according to a report published Monday by security firm Sophos. During the second quarter of 2009, 15.6 percent of the globe's junk mail traffic was relayed from the United States, followed by Brazil, which was responsible for 11.1 percent, and Turkey, at 5.2 percent. The top three rankings did not change from the first quarter. Typically, the relaying PCs were part of large botnets designed to deliver unwanted emails on behalf of spammers located elsewhere, the report said. That is, the spam usually did not originate in the United States, but could be traced to compromised U.S. machines that actually sent it out.

(I thought china was the worst, no?)