Frase conclusiva: /"None of this means that the threat of cybercrime can be written off as pure invention, or that people should turn off their spam filters. But in the grand scheme of criminal threats, hacker kingpins do not appear to be on a par with Colombian drug lords---even if the security industry would wish it otherwise."/ Dedicato a tutti i giornalisti che spesso riversano in maniera totalmente acritica sulla carta e online i comunicati stampa e le "ricerche" delle aziende di sicurezza informatica. juan carlos Measuring the black web Is cybercrime as big as its foes fear? Oct 15th 2011 | from the print edition BIG numbers and online crime go together. One well-worn assertion is that cybercrime revenues exceed those from the global trade in illegal drugs. Another nice round number is the $1 trillion-worth of intellectual property that, one senator claimed earlier this year, cybercriminals snaffle annually. It is hard to know what to make of these numbers. Online crooks, like their real-world brethren, do not file quarterly reports. In the absence of figures from the practitioners, experts tend to fall back on surveys of victims, often compiled by firms that sell security software. These have a whiff of self interest about them: they are the kind of studies that get press released but not peer reviewed. [...] Continua qui: http://www.economist.com/node/21532263