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Insecurity Plagues Emergency Alert System
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2002-09-10

The FCC-mandated network that lets officials interrupt radio and television broadcasts in an emergency is wide open to electronic tampering, and the government has no plans to fix it.

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Insecurity Plagues Emergency Alert System 2002-09-11
Am I Anonymous?
The EAS system is the SAME system used by the National Weather Service on the so called "All Hazards Radio" (Weather Radio) that almost everyone is familiar with.

Its hard to describe how BAD this technology is. Not only that but there was a huge patent fight that the Government won. Believe it...

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