China’s Anti-Spam Works.pdfVIP

China’s Anti-Spam Works Jingguang FU Ministry of Information Industry, China Geneva 7-9 July 2004 China’s current situation of spam problem China is a serious victim of spam problem. A survey shows that nearly 60% mails Chinese customers received in 2003 were spam. Many Chinese computers were utilized by foreign spammers to send spam. Some countries complained that they received many spam sent from IP addresses of China. Our investigation result shows: Some of those spam were relayed from Chinese servers instead of being sent from Chinese servers originally. Some of those spam were sent from innocent computers controlled by hackers. Because many Chinese computers or email servers lack of appropriate system protection. Some foreign spammers put their machines in China to avoid punishment of their country’s law. Why is it so difficult to solve the problem? Passiveness of mailbox. Anyone can send email to a mailbox without the consent or certification of it’s owner. Lack universal laws and law enforcement cooperation. Many countries have no anti-spam law yet. Law of country A is not effective to spammers sending spam from country B. Difficulty in finding the spammer. Even if law existed, spammers have little fears to be punished, because: It’s easy to disguise the sender and trace of a email. It’s possible to send spam using dynamic IP and make it expensive to locate the dialer. China’s anti-spam legislation China issued a series of Internet rules that prohibit anyone to propagate pornography, virus and scams on the Internet ,in 2000. An specific anti-spam regulation is being drafted currently, focusing on unso