(A long time ago, in a place far far away, I worked on disaster alerting systems, though not on this particular one. This experience leaves me with Some Views.)
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Any system for which a two-year outage is not a "reliability and security" issue can probably be turned off indefinitely
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I suspect what's really happening is that they know the existing system is trivial for anyone with a modicum of radio knowledge to use as their personal PA system, and are worried that will start happening to the point they have to disable it anyway.https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgn4v/hackers-take-over-san-franciscos-emergency-sirens …
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This system should have been turned off in 1945 as it was in most places.
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Do you think Japanese system of accountability is inherently better?
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Are you at the Stripe holiday happy hour???
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Yeah but just leaving it broken and silently understood to be broken for as long as necessary is totally on the table.
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