: Firewall makes it into RISKS Digest

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Randall <rvh40 () insightbb com>
Date: May 17, 2009 12:37:18 PM EDT
To: johnmacsgroup () yahoogroups com, David Farber <dave () farber net>,  
Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Subject: Firewall makes it into RISKS Digest

Australian emergency services can't break through their own firewall

danny burstein <dannyb () panix com>
Mon, 11 May 2009 01:26:28 -0400 (EDT)
 (Re: RISKS-25.66)

Following the news story about a youth near Sydney, Australia who  
couldn't
get help from emergency services (RISKS-25.66)[LINK], the focus in  
that excerpt
was that the emergency dispatch computer system "needed" a street  
address,
and the call receivers were stuck because they wouldn't/couldn't  
override
that requirement.  It turns out there's another risk from the story,  
courtesy
of the just completed inquest:

Complicating matters was that when other people in the emergency  
services
systems wanted to listen to the call to try to get a hint as to where he
was, it was a lot harder than it should have been:

 "Superintendent Patrick Paroz told Penrith Coroner's Court he made two
 separate requests to the state emergency services for copies of 000  
calls
 made by the Sydney Grammar student.  "He did not receive them until  
almost
 a day later.  ...  "A disc containing sound files of the calls had  
to be
 driven from the city to Katoomba because computer firewalls in the
 ambulance service system prevented police receiving them by email."

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25396246-421,00.html

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against the privileges of the underprivileged. H. L. Mencken





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