NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

Sat Jan 2 20:50:13 UTC 2021

On 1/2/21 12:40 PM, Sabri Berisha wrote:
> ----- On Jan 1, 2021, at 2:12 PM, Matt Hoppes mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> How would that even work?  Force a pop up into web traffic?  What if the end
>> users is using an app on a phone?
> Most, if not all, mobile devices connected to cellular already have that option. On
> my iphone it's under settings->notifications->government alerts. There are three
> separate options: Amber alerts, Emergency alerts, and Public Safety alerts.
I wonder if that is wired in with the earthquake alerts i think you can 
get these days.
>
> Personally, I have all three turned off after receiving nonsens alerts. Amber alerts
> for children abducted in Los Angeles, only 600km (~450 miles) from the Bay Area,
> where I live, for example. Or a "public safety" alert telling me that there are
> too many people in the local Trader Joe's, 2 miles from my home.
>
> Aliens always invade New York, so I'm safe up here :)
>
I beg your pardon, they have a bizarre fascination with Golden Gate 
Bridge. It's the oversized monkeys that like New York.

Mike