Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Windows Zombies Emit Well Over 100,000,000,000 SPAM Per Day
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:36:07 +0000
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> What is the speed of spam? 7.8 billion messages per hour!
If one assumes 10kB/message that translates into a
bandwidth of approximately 220 Gb/s [*]. All to give
details on that secret breakthrough on certain drugs to
help in a certain room of the house, or that guy in Nigeria
who wants to give you a million dollars from deceased
royalty (after paying a processing fee) or a lonely gal
or guy wanting you -- but only after paying a stipend to
view certain photos or movies.
At 1.03 nanocents per bit (retail [+]) that works out to
$200,000 per day. (Do take that figure with a very large
grain of salt, but it still works even when multiplied
by 100.)
Compare that to the approximately $2.153 trillion it
would cost using more traditional 4th rate postal rates
(11.5 cents per missive).
Small wonder spam mail is so prevalent; it's dirt cheap.
Saves trees, too. :-)
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[*] B = 10b, roughly. There are issues with stop bits and
other such framing, and I'd have to look up the details
regarding the Ethernet physical link. Under ideal
conditions B = 8b, with no framing at all; such was
in fact the case for very old Apple ][ audio tapes,
for example. Modern packet NICs just operate at a
higher frequency with a more complex protocol. ;-)
[+] I pay $40 per month for a 1.5Mb/s ISDN connection. There are
cheaper plans, I'm sure.
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to fix your Windows problems?
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