Tsunami & Internet -- good & bad

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dan Updegrove <updegrove () mail utexas edu>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:49:18 -0600
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Tsunami & Internet -- good & bad

Dave,

CNN carries upbeat article, "Internet aids tsunami recovery" (excerpt
below). 

I also have heard a report of phishing e-mail with a roaming website
alleging to be from the Red Cross that accepts credit card donations for
tsunami relief efforts. In return contributors are provided with an
"official" receipt for IRS tax reporting purposes.

Apparently moral bankruptcy has no limits.

Dan



By Michael Coren
CNN
Wednesday, January 5, 2005 Posted: 6:08 PM EST (2308 GMT)


(CNN) -- The Internet has played an unprecedented role supplying aid, money
and information in the aftermath of the Asian tsunamis.

Hours after the first waves crashed onto the coastlines, an electronic
movement was underway. Donations poured into aid agencies through Web sites.
Friends, relatives and strangers scoured the Internet for information about
missing relatives and tsunami survivors.

Hours after the first waves crashed onto the coastlines, an electronic
movement was underway. Donations poured into aid agencies through Web sites.
Friends, relatives and strangers scoured the Internet for information about
missing relatives and tsunami survivors.

Individuals, linked by an electronic network from text messages to Web
sites, began answering pleas for help, releasing list of survivors and
funneling hundreds of millions of dollars to aid agencies even as
authorities struggled to gain control of the situation.

...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/01/05/tech.tsunami/




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