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Notes to Pages 45–47 263
.org/pdfs/PIP_Broadband_trends2006.pdf. Over the past year, there has been an almost
40 percent increase in the number of broadband lines worldwide. See Vince Chook, World
Broadband Statistics: Q2 2006, at i–ii, 2 (2006), http://www.point-topic.com/content
/dslanalysis/WorldBroadbandStatisticsQ22006.pdf.
51. America Online & Nat’l Cyber Security Alliance, AOL/NCSA Online Safety Study 2
(Dec. 2005), http://www.staysafeonline.org/pdf/safety_study_2005.pdf.
52. See, e.g., Jeremy Reimer, Security Researchers Uncover Massive Attack on Italian Web Sites,
ARS TECHNICA, June 18, 2007, http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070618-security
-researchers-uncover-massive-attack-on-italian-web-sites.html (reporting on the compromise
of Italian Web sites by malicious IFRAME code, made available for a fee by Russian
crime organizations).
53. Tim Weber, Criminals ‘May Overwhelm the Web,’ BBC NEWS, Jan. 25, 2007,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6298641.stm.
54. Id.
55. Anestis Karasaridis et al., Wide-scale Botnet Detection and Characterization (2007),
www.usenix.org/events/hotbots07/tech/full_papers/karasaridis/karasaridis.pdf. Existing
studies attempting to identify compromised computers are hard-pressed to keep
up. Operation Bot Roast, headed by the FBI, has uncovered only a comparatively tiny
one million botnet computers in the United States. See FBI Tries to Fight Zombie Hordes,
BBC NEWS, June 14, 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6752853.stm.
56. Posting of Bob Sullivan to The Red Tape Chronicles, Is Your Computer a Criminal,
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2007/03/bots_story.html (Mar. 27, 2007, 10:00 GMT).
57. LUKE DUDNEY, INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS: THE LITTLE MANS FIREWALL (2003),
http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/casestudies/1340.php.
58. Id. at 5.
59. According to IronPort, over 80 percent of the world’s spam is currently sent by zombie
computers. See Press Release, IronPort, Spammers Continue Innovation (June 28,
2006), http://www.ironport.com/company/ironport_pr_2006-06-28.html.
60. Symantec’s Top Threats, in SYMANTEC HOME AND OFFICE SECURITY REPORT 4 (2006),
http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/home_homeoffice/media/pdf/SHHOS
_Dec06_NL_Final.pdf.
61. See Laura Frieder & Jonathan Zittrain, Spam Works: Evidence from Stock Touts and
Corresponding Market Activity (Harv. Pub. L. Working Paper No. 135), available at
http://ssrn.com/abstract=920553.
62. See Posting of Bob Sullivan to The Red Tape Chronicles, Virus Gang Warfare Spills onto
the Net, http://redtape.msnbc.com/2007/04/virus_gang_warf.html (Apr. 3, 2007,
10:00 GMT).
63. Id.
64. See Deborah Radcliff, When World of Warcraft Spreads to Your World, COMPUTERWORLD
SECURITY, Apr. 16, 2007, at http://computerworld.com/action/article.docommand
viewArticleBasic&articleId9016684 (detailing recent exploits of the MMOG
World of Warcraft, and noting that users’ poor password practices—a study finds that
45 percent of respondents admitted to using one or very few passwords for multiple accounts—means
one password stolen can allow access to multiple sites).