Some of the hopefuls are struggling to gain scale and cope with a crushing amount of spam.

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It's just a reality that we don't cope well with disasters of this scale.

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Officials in El Salvador say they cannot ask the United States to stop the deportations, but nor can they cope with them on any large scale.

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At the other end of the security scale, Mexico ranked as least prepared to cope with the cyber threat - a situation which is blamed on the country's authorities needing to overwhelmingly focus on the country's gang and drugs problems.

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