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If anyone has a powered cell phone they don't want someone in their household to know about, power it off.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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Wow, good call out. That never crossed my mind.
My ho phone will be off. Thank you for your service
Ho ho ho!
And leave it off at least until the end of the hour, until the alerts have timed out
If it's being sent over the cell phone carrier signal, does that mean if you're at home, or otherwise connected to Wi-Fi, that you won't get it?
No, even on WiFi your phone maintains its cellular signal, even data depending on your settings (it's just not actively used as wifi will be considered superior).
why would someone have that?
To expand on the abusive relationship aspect, say your partner, parents, etc. want to keep you from contacting people, maybe your family/friends, maybe the police, maybe your doctor (for example to seek abortion services, or maybe treatment for a health issue they've been trying to withhold medication from you for) they may check your phone to see who you've been contacting or even take your phone from you to prevent you from using it.
There's also of course less savory reasons, cheating, dealing drugs, or other illegal activities.
And somewhat less likely, undercover officers, FBI agents, investigative journalists, etc. whose cover could potentially be compromised if the wrong people are around and that second phone goes off.
As an undercover FBI agent, thanks for the heads up
As a non-undercover Agent, you arent supposed to tell people that.
i didn't thought about abuse etc, make sense, thank for the answer!
Abusive relationships.
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I'm a little over 40 years old, which means I've experienced a number of situations where such an emergency broadcast system would have been a helpful way to disseminate information and quell panic. We've had tests of these systems for as long as I can remember.
I also cannot remember it ever actually being used.
I'm in Hawaii. I can remember one being used. To create panic. Twitter was where the best attempt at quelling the panic was done.
I have so many friends who were like “yeah I knew it was fake”. Even if they did, so many of us didn’t and were scared. I was super scared. Fucking old man I hate him. Why would you wait so long to send the follow up. Awful.
While a lot of other institutions were caught flat footed, everyone in that office presumably got the alert as well and should have realized immediately it was a huge fuckup.
Really? You've never heard EAS interruptions on the TV or radio for weather, or gotten an AMBER alert on your phone?
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My state used it when a natural gas plant had an explosion to ask people to lower their thermostats. They also used it for a handful of covid updates that felt like the incorrect use of such a system.
Adding to that, didn't we JUST have a different system send a nationwide alert about 4 or 5 years ago?
Alex Jones is going to freak the fuck out.
Here for it.
We should change the text to "THIS IS A JUST A TEST FOR ALEX"
Sure. That's just what they want you to think.
This totally sounds like the start of a horror SCP anomaly.
Edit: except the horror is the actual nature of our current reality we are currently experiencing, so nm
Nah, its just in case we get nuked next week.
Never understood why we needed to be warned of that since there's fuck all we could do about it.
So you got time to grab a beer, a chair, and your New Vegas playlists.
Just in case you happen to already be within a quarter mile of a nuclear shelter.
They aren’t advertised very well, but I have seen entrances to one in downtown Pittsburgh.
You think you would even survive in a shelter if you lived in a city the size of Pittsburgh? That would be a direct hit.
Oh yeah that thought never left my mind as well. Best case scenario you end up in a tomb with 9,000 others.
So you can watch all the pretty lights and accept Atom into your heart. And be one in Division
Next week? But moooom, I wanna get nuked nooooow.
"We have nukes at home!"
- Nukes at home - The slow inevitable crumbling of society as we know it
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FYI:
On GrapheneOS, you can fully disable emergency alerts in Settings → Safety emergency → Wireless emergency alerts since we add a toggle for Presidential alerts. The naming of the alert types varies based on country which is determined by the carrier's country code not language.
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