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Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)
From: Sabri Berisha <sabri () cluecentral net>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 16:15:11 -0700 (PDT)
----- On Oct 4, 2023, at 1:02 PM, Chris Adams cma () cmadams net wrote:
Once upon a time, Grant Taylor <gtaylor () tnetconsulting net> said: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.IIRC it is mandated that the vendors don't allow you to turn off the Presidential Alert class.
If this is true, and I will take your word for it, that is outrageous. My wife is a teacher who works with special needs kids, and her phone went of twice (the second time 15 minutes after the first). This was very disruptive as you can imagine. Obviously, I made sure all of the emergency notifications were set to OFF on her phone. If setting this nonsense to OFF is not working, why even have the menu option? The government has no right to disrupt the day of 350 million people, however much the self-appointed emergency communication "professionals" like to think so. Furthermore, it's simply unnecessary. It is incredibly easy to add a one-bit flag indicating whether or not it's a test to such alerts. This whole test was a display of poor engineering and disrespect for people's first amendment rights. Thanks, Sabri
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- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) nanog08 (Oct 04)
- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) Sean Donelan (Oct 04)
- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) Matthew Petach (Oct 04)
- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) Sean Donelan (Oct 04)
- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) Matthew Petach (Oct 04)
- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) Sean Donelan (Oct 04)
- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) nanog08 (Oct 04)
- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) joel (Oct 04)
- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) Harald Koch (Oct 04)
- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) Chris Adams (Oct 04)
- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) Sabri Berisha (Oct 04)
- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) Tom Beecher (Oct 04)
- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) Grant Taylor via NANOG (Oct 05)
- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) Collider (Oct 05)
- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) Sean Donelan (Oct 06)
- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) Warren Kumari (Oct 06)
- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) Fred Baker (Oct 06)
- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) Jay R. Ashworth (Oct 11)
- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) Sean Donelan (Oct 04)
- Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC) Jay R. Ashworth (Oct 04)