A nationwide test of the emergency and wireless alert systems will be conducted Wednesday at 2:20 p.m. ET, when a message will be sent to all cellphones, TVs and radios.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said in a news release in August that a message that reads, “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed,” will be sent to all phones. A Spanish version of the message will be displayed depending on the language settings of the devices.
A separate message will be sent to radios and televisions, saying, “This is a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System, issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, covering the United States from 14:20 to 14:50 hours ET. This is only a test. No action is required by the public.”
The test is a joint operation between FEMA and the Federal Communications Commission, meant to “ensure that the systems continue to be effective means of warning the public about emergencies, particularly those on the national level,” according to the August news release.
If anyone has a powered cell phone they don’t want someone in their household to know about, power it off.
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
why would someone have that?
Abusive relationships.
And wrap it in tinfoil. Even “off” phones can be woken up and forced to display messages.
That’s absolutely not true
Alex Jones is going to freak the fuck out.
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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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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.
I think less of anyone who brings up SCP.
Right? How dare people enjoy stuff. Bunch o’ schmucks.
I hope you feel the same way about people who enjoy prank videos.
I fail to see how they relate…? Prank videos often show what some might consider harassment of strangers. SCPs are essentially a collection of creative writing prompts. I legitimately cannot fathom how the existence of the SCP website would bother someone unless they just have an issue with fiction writing for some strange reason…?
Haven’t you heard? A bunch of nerds writing on the internet is exactly the same as harassment in real life.
Watch out nerd! You are doing it right now!
That’s fine man.
You don’t have to understand everything.
No one cares what you think, loser.
No, you just don’t like what I think.
If you didn’t care you’d block me and move on. Lol.
loser.
Yeah. Go read more SCP. That’s what winners do.
Is the message going to be “test2” ?
Report to nearest FEMA concentration camp (John please edit/review, I think concentration camp sounds too strong)
A Spanish version of the message will be displayed depending on the language settings of the devices.To me this is the most disturbing line from this post. How can the sender of a message probe your phone’s settings? What other information can be queried from the device this way? Can we now remotely determine someone ethnicity from just a phone number?
Could be that both texts are provided to the phone, which would then pick the appropriate version. Seems more reasonable than trying to keep track or query millions of phones of different make and manufacturer for a language setting.
Indeed that would make more sense.
