Saturday, September 21, 2002


Emergency Alert System Could Be 0wnx0r3d Easily


The Emergency Alert System (you know, this thing) is apparently quite vulnerable to attack via spoofing. This effectively amounts to an FCC-mandated backdoor into thousands of US broadcasters.

‘It’s very, very simple to generate those messages, and there’s literally no security.’
— Richard Burgan

:: Dave Walker 19:17 (EST/EDT) [+]

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