AP takes a look at Internet harassment in Korea:
South Korea is the world’s most wired country, boasting the highest per capita rate of broadband Internet connections. But there is a growing sense that high-tech prowess hasn’t been matched by the development of a mature online society, creating a growing problem of what is known here as “cyberviolence.”
That includes anything from online insults to sexual harassment and cyberstalking, and complaints over such offenses more than doubled last year to 8,406, according to the Korea Internet Safety Commission. The most complaints were for slander, which tripled to 3,933 cases in 2005.
Authorities here have been trying to come up with ways to keep the peace in cyberspace, a mission of some import in an extremely wired nation blessed with a vibrant Internet culture. Unfortunately, some of those measures have had unintended consequences; the imposition of a real-name system for online transactions, for example, may have increased the danger of identity theft. Meanwhile, the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity & Promotion has issued textbooks on IT ethics to 5,000 middle and high schools across the country in a bid to build a healthier Internet culture.
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how about “drive-by, anonymous spamming from one’s ISP? Here is just one of many, many examples I get wherein the spam appears in the mail account even though my e-mail address is nowhere inside the header:
Received: from 211.48.62.162 (211.48.62.162)
at KTMAIL with ESMTP Hanmir
by ppp7;Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:28:33 0900
X-MsgID: 1141396113717879.0.ppp7
Message-ID:
Received: from [222.101.7.201] ([222.101.7.201])
by relay2.kornet.net ([211.48.62.162])
with ESMTP id 2006030323:28:28:861151.16499.768
for ;
Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:28:27 0900 (KST)
Received: from [188.175.8.205] by 211.48.62.135 id ; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 07:26:28 -0700
Y-Message-ID:
X-RECEIVED-IP: 211.48.62.162
From: “Myra Purvis”
Reply-To: “Myra Purvis”
To: kyc9292@kornet.net
Subject: [SPAM] ♠은행써비스보다 편리하게 대출절차를 간소화했습니다 drcgijj
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 07:26:28 -0700
X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.503 (Entity 5.501)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=”CD3A9F1F2A8221E.___03″
X-Priority: 3
X-TERRACE-SPAMMARK: YES-__TRSYS_LV__3 (SR:-25.54)
(SRN:spamrobot) —————–
(etc.)
Gee, I wonder who would have the ability to put spam directly into mail accounts. Notice who the sender’s IP address belongs too?