Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

[Grant Taylor via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

On 10/4/23 1:21 PM, Sabri Berisha wrote:
> So, this "worked". Despite me ensuring that my settings for Amber 
> Alerts, Emergency Alerts, Public Safety Alerts, and Test Alerts are 
> all off, my phone went nuts.

I'm in a similar situation.

> Makes me wonder what I have to do to opt out of this. We all remember 
> what happened in Hawaii.

I don't know if today's test is the same thing or not, but I remember in 
the last X years where there was a presidential test of the EAS and 
there was supposedly no way to disable it short of turning your device off.

My understanding is that -- let's go with -- lesser priority sources can 
be silenced, but sufficiently high priority can't be.  If the device is 
on, it's going to make noise.



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