Move over Twitter, President Trump now has the power to send every phone in the land a simultaneous message — thanks to the new “presidential alert”, tested by FEMA yesterday. What’s it for? The idea is to enable the president of the United States to warn the nation of major threats — such as a natural […]
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Predictably, America wasn’t thrilled with the nationwide Presidential Alert test
At 2:18 pm ET on Wednesday, cell phones across the country buzzed with a Presidential Alert emergency test from President Donald Trump.
It was part of the first-ever national test of the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system, part of a pair of tests …
FEMA is about to send a ‘Presidential Alert’ to millions of U.S. phones
In a few hours, millions of Americans will get a test emergency “Presidential Alert” message sent to their phone — a simulation in case the president ever needs to reach to entire country in a national emergency. At 2:18pm ET, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will send a short alert, saying: “THIS IS A TEST […]
View More FEMA is about to send a ‘Presidential Alert’ to millions of U.S. phonesFEMA to test a new system that allows the president to send an alert to your phone
Get ready for a new alert coming straight to your phone, this time from the president himself.
SEE ALSO: Hawaii’s governor couldn’t tweet about missile false alarm because he forgot his Twitter password
On the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 20, FEMA wi…
FEMA to test a new system that allows the president to send an alert to your phone
Get ready for a new alert coming straight to your phone, this time from the president himself.
SEE ALSO: Hawaii’s governor couldn’t tweet about missile false alarm because he forgot his Twitter password
On the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 20, FEMA wi…
FEMA to send its first ‘Presidential Alert’ in emergency messaging system test
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will this week test a new “presidential alert” system that will allow the president to send a message to every phone in the US. The alert is the first nationwide test of the presidential alert test, FEMA said in an advisory, which allows the president to address the nation in the […]
View More FEMA to send its first ‘Presidential Alert’ in emergency messaging system testSenate wants emergency alerts to go out through Netflix, Spotify, etc.
An emergency alert goes out, trying to let you know about incoming bad news — a missile, a tsunami or something else terrifying. Your phone starts shouting… but it’s downstairs. A warning ticker pops on TVs, if you’re watching cable… but you’ve got your eyes glued to Netflix, or Hulu, or some other online streaming […]
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Earlier this year, the people of Hawaii received an emergency alert on their phone. This alert read:
As you can probably now tell, a missile did not hit Hawaii in January 2018This message, which explicitly said was “not a drill,” indeed turned out to be just that: a drill. The test message was mistakenly sent out as an actual emergency alert. However, at the time, it took nearly 40 minutes for officials to issue a correction about the alert, sending pretty much everyone on the island in a confused state of panic.
In response to the false alarm in Hawaii, which occurred when a state emergency employee hit the wrong option on a drop-down menu, the FCC is taking steps to make the Emergency Alert System more reliable. Read more…
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Worker who sent Hawaii’s false alarm believed there really was a missile attack
A preliminary investigation into that terrifying ballistic missile false alarm that sent Hawaii into an end-of-the-world tizzy a few weeks ago has found the hysteria was caused by a worker who sent it really believed a missile was on its way.
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Hawaii emergency agency password caught on a Post-it in public photo
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If you thought there was nothing worse to put on a Post-it note than a break-up letter, think again.
On Tuesday, a photo of an employee at Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency, which was originally published in July, made the internet rounds because of something hiding on the man’s computer. For reference, that’s the same agency that mistakenly sent out a missile alert to Hawaiian residents on Saturday.
The photo, taken by the Associated Press for a prior news article, shows the employee’s desk with his many monitors. And stuck to one of those monitors is a Post-it note — with a password on it. The employee was identified by the AP as an operations officer. Read more…
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View More Hawaii emergency agency password caught on a Post-it in public photoBlame Hawaii’s apocalypse fake-out on this common video game mistake
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Nobody likes a bad user interface.
It makes video games — and really, any app or software — needlessly confusing and difficult to navigate. And as we now know, it’s also the reason the state of Hawaii experienced a brief yet horrifying period of existential panic on Saturday.
When an unnamed state official accidentally issued the alert about an incoming ballistic missile attack, this is the screen they were looking at:
This is the screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday. The operator clicked the PACOM (CDW) State Only link. The drill link is the one that was supposed to be clicked#Hawaii pic.twitter.com/lDVnqUmyHa
— Honolulu Civil Beat (@CivilBeat) January 16, 2018 Read more…
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FALSE ALARM: Panic ensues as Emergency Alert Service issues missile threat for Hawaii
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Residents of Hawaii woke up to a terrifying notification on Saturday morning when the Emergency Alert Service issued a ballistic missile warning, telling residents to “seek immediate shelter.”
“BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL,” the alert, which was delivered at approximately 8:07 a.m. HST, reads.
SEE ALSO: How wireless emergency alerts work
HAWAII – THIS IS A FALSE ALARM. THERE IS NO INCOMING MISSILE TO HAWAII. I HAVE CONFIRMED WITH OFFICIALS THERE IS NO INCOMING MISSILEpic.twitter.com/DxfTXIDOQs
— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) January 13, 2018 Read more…
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