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Is spam causing greenhouse gas?
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| That's what McAfee says in its "Carbon Footprint of Spam" report released
| Wednesday, which states climate-change researchers from the firm ICF and
| McAfee's security staff calculated that the amount of energy needed to
| transmit, process and filter spam globally is equal to 33 billion
| kilowatt-hours each year. They say that can also be expressed as the
| equivalent to the electricity used in 2.4 million homes annually or the same
| green-house gas emissions from 3.1 million passenger cars using 2 billion
| gallons of gas.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/041409-spam-greenhouse-gas.html?fsrc=netflash-rss
Spam is killing the planet
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| Apparently, dealing with spam burns 33 billion kilowatt hours (one KW is
| about what a single bar electric heater will use) every year, enough to power
| 2.4 million homes.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/774/1051774/spam-killing-planet
Related:
Microsoft is the world's biggest cause of zombie remailers
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| In China, it would take about one and one-half years wages (for the
| average Chinese) to buy a legitimate copy of Windows Vista. If you
| could find it here.
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| Microsoft is the biggest cause of zombie remailers in the world,
| because they make noises, but do not do anything to address the
| real digital inequities in the world.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38202
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
Botnets Running Rampant
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| How much money is being stolen by cybercriminals? No one knows, and no one
| even knows how to go about coming up with that number, IronPort's Peterson
| said.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144489/botnets_running_rampant.html
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