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Re: Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?
From: Clayton Zekelman <clayton () MNSi Net>
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 18:45:48 -0500
Just wait until your connected home speakers, smart smoke detector, smart refrigerator, smart tv, cell phone, IP streaming box, satellite receiver, cable box, home security panel and your Fitbit all go off warning you of the cancellation of an Amber alert at 1:30am, because the good folks at AlertReady.Ca and Pelmorex think that everything needs to go out at highest precedence, because, well, think of the children!
At 05:22 PM 08/03/2019, Sean Donelan wrote:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/08/tech/emergency-alert-netflix-hulu-streaming/index.htmlNew York (CNN Business) The federal emergency alert program was designed decades ago to interrupt your TV show or radio station and warn about impending danger from severe weather events to acts of war. But people watch TV and listen to radio differently today. If a person is watching Netflix, listening to Spotify or playing a video game, for example, they might miss a critical emergency alert altogether."More and more people are opting out of the traditional television services," said Gregory Touhill, a cybersecurity expert who served at the Department of Homeland security and was the first-ever Federal Chief Information Security Officer. "There's a huge population out there that needs to help us rethink how we do this."[...]
-- Clayton Zekelman Managed Network Systems Inc. (MNSi) 3363 Tecumseh Rd. E Windsor, Ontario N8W 1H4 tel. 519-985-8410 fax. 519-985-8409
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