The vast majority of attacks originate outside the target country, but of course the hop before is often the same country. By broad blocking IPs it is made harder to compromise but of course not impossible.

It would be quite interesting to restrict the net to the country of installation by default, that would probably solve a lot of problems, but of course the barn door has been open for a while now and the horse has bolted a long long time ago.

There are not too many websites or net resources that I use outside of N.America and Western Europe, I would say about 99.99% of my net dealings are in that area. The UK is actually very limited in what it offers for tech, poor show by the Brits :)

I don't think we even have a Linux based distro that is housed out of the UK.

Tech is really met by the US and Canada, and commerce by the UK, if you are in the UK. If you are in the US I don't think you would notice if Europe was dropped. One thing is for sure though, it is very rare to actually need a resource from Asia, Africa, S.America, or Oceania, blocking there still makes sense to reduce overall attacks.

...I know it's a bit of a tangent to the point of th article, but Melamine doesn't *actually* "boost the amount of protein [in the milk]", it falsely increases the reading for protein content.

It's the same arguement as "most spam comes from the US", and it's all based on tracking IP addresses. Well, what a surprise that the US has more poorly-managed and thus zombified computers than the rest of the world. There's more computers in the US, so it's not really surprising that there's more in the hands of incompetants.

Yes, I'm from the US. I *know* most of the computer-owners here are nitwits.

This has nothing to do with the story, but wasn't that what was in the poisoned dogfood?

quite right - I thought they were S. African but appear to be based on the Isle of Man in the City of Douglas.

Shame we don't have a cooler distro though, but hey I suppose we have one; off the main land on one of the islands, owned by a South African.

actually it is not part of the UK, it retains its own governance.

Oh well, number still at zero.