News items like this have been bugging me for a while now.
Headlines like "China hosts most of the worlds malware" mean nothing to me. A truly remarkable headline would be quite the opposite. China is a large country. A conservative estimate it has a population of close to 1.5 billion people. At any time, the country sports a staggering 200 million Internet connections. Of course they host a large amount of malware; as a country, they are one of the largest presences on the Internet!
Statistics like this get filed in the same category as "12 people died because of shark attacks in the last x years". While the numbers are true, they mean nothing. I am fairly confident that many more people die because of car accidents, smoking, or are electrocution by their computer. Does that mean that the entire population is petrified of cars, cigarettes, or pc's? Of course not; we attach too much value to them!
When considering these numbers, please put them in
perspective and think about them for a while. Are things really as bad
as they seem? Or is it just an sensationalized appearance?
Thank you for your time.
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