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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

Can you hack the emergency alert system?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.310.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

If you live in the US, you've heard the tone before: a staccato series of beeps followed by an oddly neutral voice disclosing any number of warnings or disasters. This is known as the Emergency Alert System. In the event of an emergency, this system can save lives by immediately getting information out to the public ... but what happens if someone hacks it? How easy is it do so?

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0:00.0

From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies history is riddled with unexplained events.

0:06.7

You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.

0:11.6

A production of I-Heart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noel. They called me Ben. We're

0:29.5

joined as always with our super producer Paul Mission Control Decant. Most importantly you are you you

0:35.4

are here that makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. Let's open this

0:42.1

way how do you guys feel about the emergency to know, let's open this way.

0:43.2

How do you guys feel about the emergency alert system

0:46.4

in the United States?

0:47.5

I personally dig it.

0:49.2

I think it's a cool thing.

0:50.4

This is only a test, you guys, this is only a test.

0:54.0

It's cool, man.

0:55.0

It's sort of like a, uh, it's like a international fire alarm.

1:00.0

Like I guess we grow up, uh,

1:02.0

experiencing probably more fire drills in school than

1:04.7

actual you know emergencies and that we've probably all experienced more tests of

1:09.2

the emergency broadcasting system than actual necessary uses of it but it's good to have it there in the back pocket, you know?

1:15.6

Yeah, and it's better that their test, you know, it's

1:19.0

100% that most of what we hear there are tests.

1:22.0

Yeah, not too many invasions of the country yet.

1:26.0

Couple of tornadoes, a couple of, you know, hundred tornadoes,

1:31.0

which are, it's important to have this kind of thing available

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