Just wait until your connected home speakers,
smart smoke detector, smart refrigerator, smart
tv, cell phone, IP streaming box, satellite
receiver, cable box, home security panel and your
Fitbit all go off warning you of the cancellation
of an Amber alert at 1:30am, because the good
folks at AlertReady.Ca and Pelmorex think that
everything needs to go out at highest precedence,
because, well, think of the children!
At 05:22 PM 08/03/2019, Sean Donelan wrote:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/08/tech/emergency-alert-netflix-hulu-streaming/index.html
New York (CNN Business) The federal emergency
alert program was designed decades ago to
interrupt your TV show or radio station and warn
about impending danger from severe weather events to acts of war.
But people watch TV and listen to radio
differently today. If a person is watching
Netflix, listening to Spotify or playing a video
game, for example, they might miss a critical emergency alert altogether.
"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."
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Clayton Zekelman
Managed Network Systems Inc. (MNSi)
3363 Tecumseh Rd. E
Windsor, Ontario
N8W 1H4
tel. 519-985-8410
fax. 519-985-8409
