{"id":348,"date":"2008-01-08T10:49:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T10:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=348"},"modified":"2008-01-08T10:49:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T10:49:32","slug":"whichcountryhasthemostviri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/whichcountryhasthemostviri\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Country has the Most Viri??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So as I outlined in my introductory post one of my academic areas is the digital divide.  I won\u2019t be introducing it here but I suggest you consult <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_divide\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a> if you have questions.  Anyway, one of the web resources I consult occasionally that has to do with this area is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/home\/0,2987,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development<\/a> (OECD). I was running around their broadband usage and access statistics pages and happened upon a chart that stood out.  They actually have ratings by country based on how many bot-infected (virused) computers they have.  It\u2019s not really a common dimension people think about when it comes to digital divide but as a technician I know just how horribly slow and painful a bot-infected, spyware ridden, student owned Celeron laptop can be.  If you think you might be able to use the internet, think again.  Remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q2rSlOyyeqE\" target=\"_blank\">episode of Futurama<\/a> where they have the big fight with ads?  Yeah, exactly.  Okay admittedly many of these systems might have dormant or non-invasive digital critters shacking up on the hard drive but it\u2019s still rather unfortunate.  I can say I\u2019m not so surprised Poland takes the cake for most infested but where did this Spain come from?  And Portugal?  Do they have more than 10 people?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/images\/jeff\/botsbycountry.png\" \/><br \/>\nOh, and in case you\u2019re wondering about who has the most access, home computers, fast connections, etc\u2026 generally the rich Northern European countries and Japan\/Korea own house.  The US, while it has the largest sheer number of internet users, still stands somewhere near the middle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They actually have ratings by country based on how many bot-infected (virused) computers they have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}