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Article: Spam cure: Nail the vendors.
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- Network World
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- August 2, 2004
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Byline: Winn Schwartau
The United Nations has decided to take on spam. Leaders from industrialized and evolving countries figured it was time to bring spam on an even political keel with AIDS, hunger and the war on terror. After all, the global economy wants Africa, South America and others to participate in e-commerce, e-learning and e-everything. It's good for everyone.
But what the citizens of these under-technical societies are discovering is, instead of providing a wealth of information and opportunity, security problems, worms, viruses, hijackers and spam beset their online experience.
Ask yourself: If, 15 years ago, you were similarly ...