Map of where spam is coming from. Info from Postini service indicates the most activity in the US, west-central Europe, Brazil, Korea, China, and Japan.
That's a remarkably small portion of the world. I'm very suprised.
Not as much from Nigeria as one would expect.
Although just as much as one would expect from the crystal-meth inhabitated wastelands that we midwesterners would call home.
Does make sense?
Except, why isn't anyone in Missouri sending spam? Surely they have computers.
I was surprised by how little came out of Chicago (where I am). Looks like Milwaukee has us beat. Fine by me.
And BOTH North and South Korea are real SPamcountries, apparently...Now i can see many zombie computers and bot-nets in South-Korea (see also their always on broadband connections) but North Korea??? Are they perhaps hosting Spamservices to get hold on foreign valuta?? How many (few) Pc's are there in ROK? and how many off them have power?
what the hell? the spam capital of the UK is bournemouth?!
It feels so good seeing that lots 'o spam come from the United States... makes me all warm and tingly inside...
good ol' new jersey, too!
Tehran, Iran!? What kind of spam could possibly originate there?
This map shows only the machines transmitting the spam, it would be interested to see a map of the companies / individuals that hire them to broadcast their advertisements. Judging from the type of spam I get (mostly with 1-800 numbers), the spammers' customers are 90% US-based I would think.
Pretty interesting to compare this with the "earthlights" map from APOD.
Whoa. It updates. I thought it was a static image.
What about North Korea? It's red-hot with spam!
iran?! iu can't believe it
HOWTO map for shooting nukes at. Pay attention, DoD.
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