Hey, Good News, Tokelau!

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June 4, 2008

“In its report, Mapping the Mal Web Revisited, the company found that the top-level domains with the largest proportion of malicious sites belonged to Hong Kong (.hk) and China (.cn) with the Philippines (.ph) and Romania (.ro) tied for fourth. The company surveyed nearly 10 million heavily-trafficked Web sites around the world and found that 19.2 percent of all Web sites ending in the .hk posed a danger to visitors. Approximately 11 percent of Web sites in mainland China’s top-level domain were rated as risky by SiteAdvisor.

“In 2007, the domain for the tiny South-Pacific island of Tokelau accounted for the greatest proportion of risky Web sites, McAfee stated.

“‘For administrators of top-level domains this study should act as a wake-up call,’ Jeff Green, senior vice president of product development at McAfee, said in a statement. ‘Last year’s report spurred Tokelau’s domain manager to reexamine its policies. Not all domain managers are as accommodating so our mission is to educate consumers of the dangers and protect them in every way they enjoy the Web whether through their PC, the Web itself, or mobile phone.’”

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Not exactly related, but interesting enough to mention: “The Billion-Dollar Shack,” or its radiofied version from “This American Life”:

“Nauru is a tiny island, population 12,000, a third of the size of Manhattan and far from anywhere: yet at the center of several of the decade’s biggest global events. Contributing editor Jack Hitt tells the untold story of this dot in the middle of the Pacific and its involvement in the bankrupting of the Russian economy, global terrorism, North Korean defectors, the end of the world, and the late 1980s theatrical flop of a London musical based on the life of Leonardo da Vinci called Leonardo, A Portrait of Love.”

That’s an older episode, but it was rerun late last year.