The changing face of span

摘要

For some people, the answer to the global spam problem lies in a simple, although rather radical, solution -just slice through some cables in Florida. "If we were to cut Boca Raton off from the internet, spam would go down by 50 per cent," argues Steve Linford, chief executive of Spamhaus, an organization that monitors spam patterns around the world and works closely with law enforcement agencies to try to reduce the problem. While Linford's proposed solution would be almost impossible to achieve (although last year's hurricane season made a valiant attempt), it shows just how much we know about the problem of spam. The difficulty is in stopping it. There is plenty of intelligence about how the spammer community operates. The FBI has a whole department of 16 agents working flat-out to gather evidence against various spam operations, mostly based in Florida.