Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?
Michael Thomas
mike at mtcc.com
Tue Mar 12 23:03:57 UTC 2019
On 3/12/19 3:39 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:50 PM <valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
> <mailto:valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu>> wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 13:45:23 -0700, William Herrin said:
> > > In many cases, only the foreground app has a clear understanding
> of the
> > > state of the screen. Not the OS and definitely not the hardware
> platform.
> > > I'd be super pissed if I died in Overwatch because the BIOS tried
> to take
> > > over the screen to display an amber alert.
> >
> > Would you be super pissed if you died for real because Overwatch
> suppressed a
> > tornado or other severe weather alert relevant to your location?
> Serious
> > question here.
>
> I'd prefer if my computer's BIOS didn't talk to the network at all,
> that being far more likely to open a path for malware than to save me
> from a tornado. Some things just have "bad idea" written all over
> them. Serious answer.
>
What's with perpetuating the thought that it needs to be in the bios?
It's just a normal app on a normal computer like Biff.
Mike
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