{"id":38764,"date":"2018-10-05T18:22:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T23:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38764"},"modified":"2018-10-05T18:22:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T23:22:36","slug":"cybersecurity-expert-john-mcafee-issues-warning-about-those-cell-phone-presidential-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38764","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity Expert John McAfee Issues Warning About Those Cell Phone \u201cPresidential Alerts\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cybersecurity Expert John McAfee Issues Warning About Those Cell Phone \u201cPresidential Alerts\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n
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With the push of a button and at the direction of President Donald Trump, a \u201cPresidential Alert\u201d was sent to all cellphones across America at 2:18 p.m. ET yesterday.<\/p>\n

The message was the first test of what many are calling the \u201cPresidential Alert\u201d system, a new way to notify Americans across the country of national emergencies.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what it looked like, in case you were one of the few who didn\u2019t get the alert, or you don\u2019t have a cell phone:<\/p>\n

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A 2015 law called\u00a0the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Modernization Act<\/a>\u00a0limits the scope of what can be considered a valid emergency alert:<\/p>\n

Except to the extent necessary for testing the public alert and warning system, the public alert and warning system shall not be used to transmit a message that does not relate to a natural disaster,\u00a0act\u00a0of terrorism, or other man-made disaster or threat to public safety.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The idea for this system was sponsored by Senator\u00a0Ron Johnson\u00a0(R-Wisconsin) and\u00a0signed into law by then-President\u00a0Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

Despite the wording of the message, this is\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0a presidential alert system, explains Law & Crime<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It is a Wireless Emergency Alert system set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to allow government officials to swiftly send information to the American public in a time of crisis, specifically terror attacks, natural disasters, or other public safety threats.<\/p>\n

The alert everyone got this week was not sent by Trump, despite the misleading title. It was sent by FEMA as a test of the system. In the future, the president will have the ability to send messages, as will other officials from federal, state, tribal, and local governments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Cybersecurity Expert John McAfee Issues Warning About Those Cell Phone \u201cPresidential Alerts\u201d With the push of a button and at the direction of President Donald Trump, a \u201cPresidential Alert\u201d was sent to all cellphones across America at 2:18 p.m. ET yesterday. The message was the first test of what many are calling the \u201cPresidential Alert\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3306,22130,22135,307,22133,22129,6489,22132,22131,6490,22134],"class_list":["post-38764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-barack-obama","tag-cell-phone-alerts","tag-federal-emergency-management-agency","tag-fema","tag-integrated-public-alert-and-warning-system-modernization-act","tag-john-mcafee","tag-mac-slavo","tag-national-emergency","tag-presidential-alerts","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-wireless-emergency-alert-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38765,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38764\/revisions\/38765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}