The emergency notification in Hawaii was probably generated using software built by AtHoc, now owned by Blackberry. http://www.hawaiiarmyweekly.com/2017/12/13/athoc-alerts-army-hawaii-community-about-threats/ …
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The NYT reported on Hawaii's emergency alert system very recently: "The siren, if used as an actual warning, would signal to people that they should immediately seek shelter"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/us/hawaii-nuclear-korea.html …
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Ah yes, most of these systems use the Common Alerting Protocol, which as you might expect, is an XML shitshow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Alerting_Protocol …
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CAP is apparently designed to be backward compatible with SAME: Specific Area Message Encoding, which is a fixed width format. Ah yes. XML backwards compatible with fixed width messages. Abstraction! *jazz hands* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_Area_Message_Encoding …
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The multiverse is real: every time a software architecture decision can be branched into Good and Bad Ideas, both will exist, with Bad Ideas becoming hyper-specific critical government-funded projects.
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