General Hacker Activity (Based On Intuition Alone): These are the problem-states, and problem-countries, as well as problem-people in league with the worst hacker interests. Russian Federation Phoenix, Arizona California in general Some parts of Maine (though this is mostly personal to me) Colorado Washington, USA, especially Seattle Germany Massachusetts, especially college campuses. And other areas of which are rooted in silicon-valley type locales. Hackers scourge around areas where silicon value is of high-value to their interests, and they operate out of these places. VPN's only mask, so much, when I am (myself) still able to trace them all. BLS