Just some bullshit the guvment does to make us think they give a shit about us. In a real emergency, they wouldn't do shit. Hawaii being a recent example.
Didn't they make a good movie out of it?
You can opt out by sticking your phone up your ass.
I'm going to test making a faraday bag today.
can help
It's nothing to worry about.
Yet.
We need like, an emergency poal meet up spot
I'm testing my 'bag' anyway. Phone off, plastic-wrapped, foil wrapped, and set inside a pencil box (likely aluminum), and waiting to see if that's going to work.
I understand I have another shot at testing on 10/11 for round 2 broadcast.
just fyi, putting it in a microwave works as a faraday cage, since well, they are faraday cages for the microwave radiation they emit. probably beset to have the microwave unplugged though
Good t know. I think I need a quick and portable faraday bag so this is a good time to test.
edit: Decided to leave the phone on in the box
edit: success, no signal got thru my box, phone was on wrapped in plastic and then aluminum foil
I also had success with your same plastic and foil design. I also stuck it in my deep fridge.
Turn phone off from 2 - 3. Just do it.
probably some bullshit
Has anyone actually received any of these supposed emergency broadcasts? I get all the usual alerts like amber alerts and silver alerts, but I have never received any "test" alerts or anything from FEMA, the CDC, the WH or any other agency like them. No one I know has ever received them either. I think it's BS.
Could be. Always some distraction
Wife and I just got it in Texas.
Oct 3, 2018 was the last time
Oct 3, 2018 was the last time
Didn't receive that one or any other before it. I doubt I will receive this one.
With zero knowledge or insight or will to look into anything to give you a better answer, I'm going to say this is some kind of Russia/China fearmongering thing.
thats funny cuz they did it during Trump's reign and the retards all said "It for when Trump's Storm arrives!"
Full disclosure, I was also high on hopium at the time....
Nuclear war, or all the smokyalarms in the world go off
They're pushing hard for a Russia/China war and our faggot tranny low IQ cannon fodder troops will be the first in the meat grinder.
They test it every 3 years
Yeah, think we had this bullshit before
Now be a dear and turn ALL your emergency alerts off instead of being one of the normies wasting time with this shit
Can I do it while in progress? Not much drive time between jobs today
yeah, for all alerts except these, some phones tell you that when you turn it off.
I was thinking American horror story apocalypse exposed this
Sure was nice of them to send the damn text in Spanish before English. Traitors.
I turned mine off and put it in my aluminum lined lunchbox
My concern is that it activates the E911 hardware within the phone. That has the ability to provide phone GPS location and activate the mic (obvious utility in a 911 emergency scenario). What's of concern here is the speculation over whether the GPS data is being harvested during the test. I personally don't think it is but technically I think it's a given that it easily could be. Running with that, it's trivial to correlate phone number with person with current geographic location. A lot of folks don't like that invasion of privacy, myself included.
Mine is off and in an improvised Farraday bag.
GPS data is always being collected no matter your settings.
Very true. For Android devices it's how Google Maps detects traffic jams. That at least is supposed to be anonymized. Supposed to be. I just didn't like the idea of a Government-originated trigger to collect location snapshots complete with user photo of every single person. Doubt it was done but, like Mulder said, trust no one.
Guess I'll turn mine off. Less than ten minutes, and I'll be at a job site then
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