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Comment This is our collective responsibility (Score 2, Insightful) 597

ror allowing Windows computers in the classroom in the first place.

Botnets are huge and well known to anyone who ever glances into their spam box.

Some collection of security experts claim that they are tracking 400,000 infected machines
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/technology/07net .html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

These machines are sending out spam, and a fair amount of it is porn spam. The obvious conclusion
is that most every Windows-using school in America has porn on the disks of its classroom computers.

Actually the percentage of infected machines in schools is probably higher than the general percentage,
because schools typically don't have much budget for IT staff, and they often have older computers.

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