If you can help, or know of people who can . . .
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Subject: [IP] Red Cross needs network security tech volunteers
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:05:15 -0400
From: David Farber <dave (AT) farber (DOT) net>
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From: Jean Armour Polly <mom (AT) netmom (DOT) com>
Date: September 11, 2005 9:42:36 AM EDT
To: David Farber <dave (AT) farber (DOT) net>
Subject: Red Cross needs network security tech volunteers
from http://boingboing.net/
Katrina: Red Cross needs network security tech volunteers
Snip from an advisory from the SANS Internet Storm Center:
[Needed:] technically savvy volunteers who can help in two ways - at
the shelters in implementing Windows and Cisco systems for the
volunteers and people living there, and at Red Cross headquarters in
the Washington DC area to improve the implementation of security
software tools that have been implemented but are not fully
exploited. Here's how you can help.
1. People who live near the shelters (or who could get there and who
have family/friends with whom you could stay), and who have lots of
experience deploying Windows XP and/or Cisco systems, please register
your willingness to help at this link. The Red Cross will contact you
directly.
2. People in the Washington DC area (or who could get here quickly)
and would volunteer to help, and who have substantial experience with
any of the following:
-- tuning Cisco IDS
-- tuning NetIQ Manager
-- tuning McAfee ePolicy
please do two things:
a. register online, and b. send me an email at [paller at sans.org]
telling me which tool you know well and how available and close you
are so I can set up a contact for you.
SANS is also donating $100,000 to the Red Cross, and we learned today
that at least one leading security vendor, TippingPoint, has offered
to give the Red Cross the equipment they need to protect their
networks - without asking for compensation.
If you know of people or companies in the IT or security field who
are trying to make a difference in the recovery effort, please let us
know what you or they are doing [Email paller at sans.org].
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Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:
Sun, 2005-09-11 at 11:59, Brian Dunbar wrote:

>>If you can help, or know of people who can . . .

Someone should tell the Red Cross about KNPPIX when used in combination with a DHCP server - instant, foolproof, secure deployment.

Which works but then you've got volunteers coming in to work on the
machines who don't know KNPPIX or that funny LINUX stuff - they (I
cojecture) need to fill out Word docs, print forms and so on with
minimal / no training. Everyone savys Windows.

Yah, I know, , GhostView. I'm not saying you're wrong, you're
right.

Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 10:05:07PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:
Sun, 2005-09-11 at 21:30, Brian Dunbar wrote:
>Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:
Sun, 2005-09-11 at 11:59, Brian Dunbar wrote:

If you can help, or know of people who can . . .

Someone should tell the Red Cross about KNPPIX when used in
combination with a DHCP server - instant, foolproof, secure
deployment.
>>
>Which works but then you've got volunteers coming in to work on the
>machines who don't know KNPPIX or that funny LINUX stuff - they (I
>cojecture) need to fill out Word docs, print forms and so on with
>minimal / no training. Everyone savys Windows.
>>
>Yah, I know, , GhostView. I'm not saying you're wrong,
>you're right.
>
The last time I tried Knoppix, it had both and ghostview
installed.

I *think* you can use DHCP to automatically set up printer queue's,
but am not sure. Then you only need to set up one machine to serve up
printers and have every other machine use lpr to send the jobs off.

Besides, they should be doing a lot of Web apps these days instead of
Windows, anyways.

Yeah, but even the Web apps require IE6:

Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Michael Parson wrote:
Yeah, but even the Web apps require IE6:

Tell me about it. Both my credit union and my credit card
company have taken major steps backwards and "updated" their
websites recently so that after literally years of working JUST
FINE with , Mozilla, or Firefox they no longer do.

I attempted to pay my credit card bill today and for the first
time it doesn't work with firefox. (Warning: Any time you
notice the website has a new look, BE AFRAID.) When I try
to log in to pay the bill, it tells me a "general system error
has occurred." So I contact them to explain the error and I
get this response in email:

We have responded to the message you recently sent to Citi Cards Customer
Care. To view our response, sign-on at http://www.citicards.com, select
Contact Us from the Help/Contact Us menu, and choose View/Update Messages.

Attempts to sign in to actually READ their response just give me the
general system error page again.

Thanks a lot, morons.
-DanD

Dan Duncan wrote:
Tell me about it. Both my credit union and my credit card
company have taken major steps backwards and "updated" their
websites recently so that after literally years of working JUST
FINE with , Mozilla, or Firefox they no longer do.

Yup. State Farm did this a few months back. I could no longer log in
to access my State Farm Bank account, or to pay my bill online. Telling
them that it had worked just fine with Firefox for years just got a rote
response that they didn't support Firefox. Asking why they didn't
support the second most widely used Web browser on the 'net just got the
same response.

So I closed my State Farm Bank account, and I now pay my insurance bill
by mail, so it takes them longer to get their money. Sucks to be them.