On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 2:22 PM Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
"More and more people are opting out of the traditional television
services," said Gregory Touhill, a cybersecurity expert who served at the
Department of Homeland security and was the first-ever Federal Chief
Information Security Officer. "There's a huge population out there that
needs to help us rethink how we do this."

Hi Sean,

Here's my take:

If it has a screen or speaker and it connects to a network, it should be capable of providing emergency alerts.

Every device capable of providing emergency alerts should allow them to be easily and fully disabled. Even if there is a missile inbound, I don't need 20 devices trying to tell me all at once. In fact, the cacophony would almost certainly make the alert hard to understand.

My cell phone woke me up in the middle of the night during a recent landline outage because the county felt the need to let me know that I wouldn't be able to call 911 if, you know, I happened to need to call 911. Thanks guys. Thanks a lot. And I can't block their messages. That's a problem.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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