----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com> To: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 1:47 PM Subject: Re: Homeland Security Alert System
I'm certain the government folks working to protect us 24x7 are doing everything they can, but the fact of the matter is the public alert systems in the US suck. Some just suck less.
http://www.nj.com/news/gloucester/index.ssf?/base/news-0/104590500555170.xml
"Butts said he often finds out about things like the change in the national threat level on CNN hours before the Communications Center receives a teletype about it."
Butts is the Gloucester County Emergency Response Coordinator including the county 9-1-1 communications center.
ISPs and other communication providers should be prepared to share information directly and quickly with each other. If you wait to hear from government officials to decide what sanitized information to share, it will be hours later. If ever.
Yesterday I was asked to install a DISH Network system for the Transportation Security Administration so their folks at the Airport can get "the news".<s> --Michael