From: synackrst at gmail.com (synackrst)
Subject: Press Release Survivor Location Assistance Project

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
North America:
B.K. DeLong
Media Liaison
The Hacker Foundation
telephone: +1.617.797.2472
Christian Wright
Media Liaison
Packetstorm Security
telephone: +1.312.399.5064
Europe:
Emerson Tan
Director
Packetstorm Security
telephone: +44.781.456.8265
e-mail: press@...vivorlocationassistance.org
THE HACKER FOUNDATION RELEASES SURVIVOR LOCATION ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Organization distributes software as open-source and centralizes
tracking of disaster victims.
http://www.survivorlocationassistance.org -- 6 January 2005 -- The
Hacker Foundation (THF) is pleased to
announce the creation of the Survivor Location Assistance (SLA)
project, a globally accessible web-based
database system designed to help survivors, relatives, internally
displaced people, and aid agencies connect
with one another and to facilitate & coordinate the need to track all
victims of disasters around the world.
SLA's first application is now live and awaiting new entries - South
Asian Tsunami - Survivor Location
Assistance (SAT-SLA). The system is running on hardware donated by
Packetstorm Security and on
network connectivity provided by Asylum Networks Inc.
The SLA project encourages the myriad of web sites and organizations
currently maintaining lists of
survivors, Internally Displaced People & the missing to contribute
their dataset to the SAT-SLA database.
Hospitals, aid agencies, & NGOs are also encouraged to share their
registration information to ensure
relatives of survivors are notified in a fast & timely manner that
their loved ones are safe & alive.
"The SLA project is why The Hacker Foundation was created," said THF
President and Co-founder Jesse
Krembs. "to bring useful technological resources to people in need.
Our staff of volunteers has done an
amazing job putting together a tool in such a short amount of time
that can not only be used in this crisis,
but hopefully for any humanitarian need."
On the SLA Web site, users can add a new entry with identifying
information about a person, or search the
database to see if their relative has been located. By the end of 1Q
2005, THF and the SLA project hope to
publicly release the source code for the system and begin fostering a
development community around the
open source solution. Those interested in making use of software more
immediately can email the project at
support@...vivorlocationassistance.org . The SLA web site is located at
http://www.survivorlocationassistance.org .
"THF is releasing the SLA backend to anyone who requests it & opening
our survivor data to the public,"
said Emerson Tan, Director of Packetstorm Security. "As more of the
world gets connected via the Internet,
we believe the SLA project has global potential to be used in tracking
IDPs, thwarting the child slavetrading
of orphans from such disasters, and assisting aid agencies & NGOs
responding to humanitarian
efforts similar to those in the Darfur region of Sudan."
The SLA project is also seeking translation assistance for its web
site, database and other resources to
ensure global access and usability.
"The world has many different languages," said THF's Krembs. "and
disasters do not discriminate. We
hope, with volunteer help, to be able to offer our information in
Thai, Sinhala and other native tongues of
those effected by the tsunami."
About The Hacker Foundation
The Hacker Foundation (THF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to
establishing and maintaining a
research & service organization to promote & explore the creative use
of technological resources. Visit the
Hacker Foundation web site at http://www.hackerfoundation.org.
About Packetstorm Security
Packetstorm Security is the world's largest free repository of
Internet security information. It is staffed entirely by volunteers
throughout the world and mirrored in many locations. Web site at
http://www.packetstormsecurity.org.
About Asylum Networks
Asylum Networks provides Internet colocation services to customers
with extremely demanding security
requirements. The company operates in five countries (Switzerland,
Luxembourg, Cayman Islands,
Denmark, and the United States) each chosen to address either
financial privacy concerns or provide
excellent connectivity. Asylum Networks' portfolio includes
international banks, financial institutions, and
security-conscious corporations. Please visit them at
http://www.asylum-networks.net.

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