Re: Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 2:22 PM Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:

> "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."

Hi Sean,

Here's my take:

If it has a screen or speaker and it connects to a network, it should be
capable of providing emergency alerts.

Every device capable of providing emergency alerts should allow them to be
easily and fully disabled. Even if there is a missile inbound, I don't need
20 devices trying to tell me all at once. In fact, the cacophony would
almost certainly make the alert hard to understand.

My cell phone woke me up in the middle of the night during a recent
landline outage because the county felt the need to let me know that I
wouldn't be able to call 911 if, you know, I happened to need to call 911.
Thanks guys. Thanks a lot. And I can't block their messages. That's a
problem.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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