Re:Hawaii missile alert standdown delayed by forgotten log-in
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @09:02AM
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In emergency situations, if social media platforms work better than "official channels" (and they do), I'd prefer the government to use them.
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Re:Hawaii missile alert standdown delayed by forgotten log-in
by craftyguy on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @11:20AM
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I don't. Having to agree to yet more 'privacy' policies and succumb to tracking and other rights violations by the big social media platforms just to be able to recieve important messages from our government is, well, extremely stupid. The government must have a reliable way to do this. They don't, so they are trying to take the 'easy way', and that's a failure on their part.
Re:Hawaii missile alert standdown delayed by forgotten log-in
by albertgoeswoof on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @11:33AM
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Imagine if Russia relied on twitter to distribute missile strike notifications and the US decided to make a pre-emptive strike. Do you really think twitter would not have a mysterious outage during the strike? Or that there would be reliable information on there?
You can't rely on private companies, especially with foreign investors to provide critical infrastructure.