• Trump administration will send a message to all US phones on Thursday
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EMERGENCY EMERGENCY EMERGENCY "The gorilla channel is off the air! This day is a day that shall live in infamy!"
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Yes the system has been around for a while now, there was a national test in Canada and basically everyone in Canada got an alert, annoyingly it is titled "Presidential Alert" even up here.
What surprises me the most is that a Trump is willing to use something Obama-made.
Does this use cell broadcasts or is this something that can be supported on an LTE-only network?
We also got a txt from a "Suomi100" number on our independence day, for celebration. At least most majority of us Finns did. You couldn't call or respond to it though, but it was funny OK Also for USA ppl, it says the text is going to have a custom loud tone and vibration - just how bullshit is that? Are they able to just bypass phone/app settings? Really curious on that and really eager to hear about that from y'all y'all.
Well all phones have a simple solution to avoid unwanted calls, texts, sounds etc. Its called an off button.
well presidential and disaster alerts are meant to get people in a locations' attention ASAP because it could include very important information the US has one of the best alert systems in the world, nearly every major form of communication (radio/tv/cellular/phone) originally developed for wartime now utilized for peacetime the presidential alerts cannot be muted disabled or hidden by mandate, and you typically dont want to disable the weather alerts either (amber, ehhh ive gotten amber alerts from out of state) the localized ones are sent out to individual cell towers (so anything connected to them would receive it) for events such as extreme or immediate weather or livelihood risks however, the nationwide presidential system has yet to be tested on such scale so it makes sense that they'd want to test it. it'd be bad for them to have something legitimately important to broadcast but it fail halfway through. assuming it doesn't get abused (which is a good way to commit political suicide), I'm 100% ok with the alerts
He’ll probably shut it down in favor of his new program “trump-alerts”
Can we text him back?
Or cause mass chaos, I seriously hope that it's as well guarded as an ICBM is.
It's been pushed back. https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/17/fema-postpones-mobile-emergency-alert-test/
I get the feeling that the entire whitehouse is working hard making sure Trump doesn't have direct access to this right now, just to ensure he doesn't accidentally buttdial the entire USA a link to whatever fucked up porn he's into.
Seeing as this is apparently unused its likely he is going to try to take credit for it. Like how last year he announced all those incredibly obscure holidays as if they were his invention.
Watch as Trump abuses the system just to blame Obama for having it developed and built.
You can send direct instructions to the sim-card through specialized SMS, which will bypass the phone OS completely, and then the sim-card has quite a lot of control over the phone itself. That has been around since forever, and is used often by your provider to setup stuff on your phone such as which towers to use etc. There's also a lot of stuff for emergency things in the GSM standard, for how emergency numbers work (since you don't need any sim-card, and it's not operator dependant) for example, that I assume can be used both ways (send messages to phone).
The question is whether you can broadcast or just send to every device sequentially. But you're right, it's not very far-fetched to suspect that this can be installed as SIM app after the fact, or at least to implement some standard that can get this specific kind of message out quickly without overloading the network.
I once got one of these at like 1 Am in the morning, and couldn't go back to sleep for several hours. I had to get on my computer for a while just to calm myself down.
Since a tower keeps track of all connected devices, I imagine when it gets these emergency alerts, it simply sends a message to all connected devices simultaneously. The message is likely something in a control channel. Since it uses a channel the phone uses frequently anyway, there really isn't a chance of overloading the network just from that message.
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