Technology In Katrina's Wake

We've had many submissions about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It doesn't come easy writes "From 'the end justifies the means department', the BBC is reporting that bogus emails about the current situation in New Orlean contain links to websites that promptly infect the concerned reader's computer. From the article: 'The separate virus and fake donations bogus e-mails have been discovered by computer security firms SophosLabs and Websense Security Labs. They are similar to previous fraudulent e-mails connected to last year's Indian Ocean Tsunami.'" Less cynically, an anonymous reader writes "A Linux developer is organizing volunteers for a public 'web station' project to assist Hurricane Katrina victims. The plan is to create numerous Linux-based public kiosks that boot directly into the Firefox browser and display a special home page with links to various services. In addition to offering disaster relief information and news, the kiosks will provide basic email capabilities via Yahoo!, Gmail, Earthlink, MS Hotmail, and other web-mail services. They're looking for donations of time and money. If you're looking to donate more directly, tech companies across the country are maintaining pages with ties to respected charities. Yahoo is maintaining the Red Cross donation page, and everyone from Microsoft to IBM has a message on their frontpage."

Comments

Re:Why has no one mentioned...

[xCepheus]

Great... this guy's web server survived _HURRICANE KATRINA_ and now you go and a post a link to it on slashdot.

Nice...

Hindsight is 20:20

[Valiss]

Gatta love the understatement of the week on his blog:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/2005/ 08/27/

If only they knew then...

You're the only one. ;-)

[suso]

You know TripMaster Monkey, I think you're the only person on Slashdot who ever understands what I'm getting at. Everyone else takes me so literally and mods me down as overrated.

Re:This one is for all that voted Bush.

[b3x]

DAMN that GW Bush and his EVIL hurricane machine. Notice how Crawford,TX never gets hurricanes? Coincidence? No, no ... the Religeous Right have mastered hurricane generation and are working feverishly in underground laboratories (Pat Robertson's basement and whatnot) on unleashing these natural disasters in attempt to rid the world of poor blacks and gays. San Francisco is next ... the meterologists are going to shit a brick.

Re:Why?

[airrage]

...(humans) continue to put important things in the most vulnerable places...

Humans didn't put New Orleans there, the French did.