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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 2002-09-13
AM I Anonymous
Using the INTERNET as the primary and only transmission medium is a BAD idea. Even the protocols don't work in a broadcast (one-way) environment.

The primary premise of the EAS network is that every broadcaster must have two upstream sources and rebroadcast any valid messages received. (as spec...

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