[84445] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Ulevitch)
Tue Sep 13 13:51:58 2005
In-Reply-To: <20050913.061351.14961.398222@webmail27.lax.untd.com>
From: David Ulevitch <davidu@everydns.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:51:28 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Sep 13, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
>
> Attempts by agencies to spur the Federal Emergency Management
> Agency into urgent action were met with bouncing emails, the
> Journal said.
http://www.fema.gov/staff/extended.jsp
Lists an "IT Services Division" that has ~250 possible points of
contact.
Surely one of them has some clue... :-/ I think this sort of problem
shows the endemic disease currently in place at FEMA. It's not just
an "IT gaffe" or firewall mistake. It's a failure much more serious,
sadly.
-David
