On 26 Apr 2002, John R. Levine wrote:
Some foreign servers block access attempts whose origins are traced to Korea, implying that the country's leadership in the broadband Internet business may be marred by its negligence in upgrading lame security protection systems, the center said.
No kidding. Some of us have gotten so tired of spam from Korea, both stuff relayed from the west and Korean-language spam promoting Korean web sites, combined with the complete lack of response to all abuse reports, that we've blocked all mail from Korean networks.
It extends beyond spam. We run a fairly high-volume website for a client that has a members area. We have seen nothing but continuous DOS and password scanning attempts against the site(on the order of several thousand per second) from numerous points across Korean IP space to the point that we've begun blackholing all of it as soon as these attacks begin(several a day.) Scary stuff. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Patrick Greenwell Asking the wrong questions is the leading cause of wrong answers \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/