The Internet is serving a very important role in the hurrican recovery. One of these is connecting survivors together that are scattered all over the nation. Go into a database and search for family members – or add your own name and where you are.
The problem, however, is that serveral people have set up the databases and you end up having to enter your name and contact address to several or, if you are searching, searching several.
Enter a new web site that can search all the leading survivor databases for you. It exists at:
http://katrinalist.net/
This brings up legal issues when taken beyond Katrina. There are already web sites that search eBay and other databases for the lowest price on a specific item. These same people have started lawsuits, saying it is illegal for other sites to use their information that way.
In most cases, the courts have ruled that people have a right to protect their information. Is this fair, however? What if people networking these Katrina databases had to secure rights to each database they are using? In some cases you wouldn’t be able to locate the database webmaster. Internet databases should be open by default unless secured otherwise.
For our spammer blacklist at
http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/stopspam.cfm, we consider it an open database and any hacker canuse it to kill IPs. These are illegal IPs.
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