I would trust it more than not getting an alert. Especially if it started with something along the lines of "There is a tornado warning for Springfield and North Haberbrook" and I had enough brain cells to know what city I was in.
-A On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 1:14 PM ITechGeek <i...@itechgeek.com> wrote: > At least cell phones have a reliable way to know where they are at any > given moment. Would you really trust providers sending out emergency > notifications based on something like GeoIP or based on the zipcode on the > account? > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -ITG (ITechGeek) | i...@itechgeek.com > i...@secure.itg.nu (Protonmail) (Fingerprint: 7d1a160f) > https://keybase.io/itechgeek | https://itg.nu/ > Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: > http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net > > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 3:49 PM Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, William Herrin wrote: >> > tl;dr: keep your cell phone on and with you 'cause only a few things >> > get emergency alerts and only when they're turned on. >> >> You sound like the CTIA in the 2000s when it was opposed to requiring >> emergency alerts on cell phones. "Its unnecessary to require cell phones >> have emergency alerts, because people get emergency alerts other ways." >> >> The problem was all the consumer electronic industry groups always point >> at "someone else." The cable industry said it was unnecessary in the >> 1980s because local TV stations had emergency alerts. The TV industry >> said it was unnecessary in the 1970s because local radio stations had >> emergency alerts. Etc. etc. etc. >> >> The reason your cell phone has emergency alerts, is the FCC required them. >> >
