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Can Openness Save the Internet?
by Santeri Kannisto, in Editorials - Sat, Oct 30th 2004 00:00 PDT

The usefulness of the Internet has been severely compromised by a
proliferation of spam, worms, crackers, and viruses. The Internet has
been stifled by harmful traffic (and its related expenses) which have
increased to a now intolerable level. According to the U.N., UNTAD,
Symantec, F-prot, MessageLabs, and several market analysts, the
financial burden of dealing with harmful Internet traffic reached tens
of billions of Euros this year. Next year will see this increase to
hundreds of billions of Euros if the problems worsen as forecasts
predict. What is destroying the Internet, and can its collapse be
prevented?

http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1360/