Reds under the modem

Which idiot was it who destroyed comunist USSR? OK, so maybe this ensured world peace, and saved a packet not having to buy more nukes, but really, just look at the place now.

A recent McAfee report discovered most of the world's malware is emanating from places which used to be invisible inside the old USSR. And when they lived there, let me tell you right now, Uncle Joe Stalin would have had them off to a gulag in an instant for sending all that spam and all those viruses out onto the Internet. Yeah, OK, he probably wouldn't have bothered if they only targeted the USA, but surely, even a rabid dictator wouldn't declare email war on the entire planet?

Any malware report you care to look at will tell you this stuff isn't done for fun any more. No, sir. This stuff is coming at you to steal your money, and when you're living in Gawdforsakenstan you probably wouldn't mind bending a few laws to get your hands on a serious wad.

Which brings me to the obviuous solution to the problem. Declare any ISP which allows this stuff through to end-users to be worse than the old commies and send them off to the nearest gulag.

I hear we've got something like a gulag over in Nauru that's not getting much use these days, although the weather is probably better.

Gotta go! Customers waiting!