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Re:The Mirai Botnet Was Part of a College Student Minecraft ... by StudentStuff on Thursday December 14, 2017 @06:37AM (#15921489)
Yeah, but its akin to banning drugs through the mail. Unless we open and inspect everything mailed into a country (which would be a massive make work program of the likes we've rarely seen), you can't stop it all. AliExpress, Deal Extreme and eBay are going to keep selling goods with fake CE and UL labels that are substandard, despite regulations to the contrary.

If your country does need a make work program, hiring many postal inspectors wouldn't be the worst make work program yet. I think the TSA wins that :P

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Re:The Mirai Botnet Was Part of a College Student Minecraft ... by akerro on Thursday December 14, 2017 @06:40AM (#15921511)
Sure, you can't stop all of them, but stopping 96% would be enough.
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Re:The Mirai Botnet Was Part of a College Student Minecraft ... by StudentStuff on Thursday December 14, 2017 @07:29AM (#15921737)
Your never going to get into the high double digits, as is most postal services have a pitiful catch rate for drugs, expanding that to cover electronics doesn't mean that catch rate will magically improve.
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