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U.S. tackles Emergency Alert System insecurity
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-08-12

The U.S. Emergency Alert System (EAS) that lets officials instantly interrupt radio and T.V. broadcasts to provide emergency information in a crisis suffers from security holes that leave it vulnerable to denial of service attacks, and could even permit hackers to issue their own false regional alerts, federal regulators acknowledged Thursday.

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