We are not winning if spam, phishing, and botnet threaten consumers and business worldwide

I like John Leyden's columns in general and agree that companies are doing the basics better and more consistently. However, hackerrs are just moving to attack targets of greater value - so we aren't winning as a society, even if businesses secure their network perimeter. We are not winning if spam, phishing, and botnet threaten consumers and business worldwide. The volume of spam continues. Phishing is a serious threat to consumers and businesses - just check the number of phishing e-mails out there about every major bank, securities dealer, and money transfer service. Botnet threats are still untdetermined. Extortion of businesses still exists. There is almost no cross-border control. Spam is still simple to generate. The idea that we are safe, when hackers simply focus on targets of higher economic value is just nonsense. Businesses are one step above clueless. Consumers continue to be generally clueless. Individuals are still willing to give up personal information for chocolate (reported recentlly that 80% would, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/19/nbogus19.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/04/19/ixhome.html) or are willing to insert mystery CDs in thier corporate computers that were just given to them on the street (also reported recently http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39156503,00.htm).