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Title: It is NOT eerie: Hacked Emergency Message Foreshadowed Devastating NJ Train Crash: “Would You? Could You? On a Train?”
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Published: Oct 1, 2016
Author: Gatlin
Post Date: 2016-10-01 01:51:28 by Gatlin
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There is a simple explanation as to what happened. It was probably a repeat of one of the glitches that has previously occurred on the EAS, the incident was not caused by hacking and neither is this a new grand conspiracy theory. This EAS broadcast was caused by a glitch similar to one described below. Until the bugs are worked out of the EAS….these type glitches will probably happen again. Could you, would you There is nothing mystic about that phase and there is nothing ominous as to the meaning. It is simply a phrase from the lyrics of a song by Dr. Seuss titled: Green Eggs And Ham. […] Would you like them […] I would not, could not in a tree. A train! A train! Not on a train! Not in a tree! […] http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dr+seuss/green+eggs+and+ham_20208487.html Here are many other incidents of glitches in the EAS: The EAS was, notably, not used during the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington. Richard Rudman, the chairman of the EAS National Advisory Committee, explained that near immediate coverage in the national media meant that the media itself provided the warning or alert of what had happened and what might happen as quickly as the information could be distributed. "Some events really do serve as their own alerts and warnings. With the immediate live media coverage, the need for an EAS warning was lessened." 34 PEP stations were kept on high alert for use if the President had decided to order an Emergency Action Notification. "PEP is really a last-ditch effort to get a message out if the president cannot get to the media."[26] On February 1, 2005, someone activated an EAS message over radio and television stations in Connecticut telling residents to evacuate the state immediately. Officials at the Office of Emergency Management announced that the activation and broadcast of the Emergency Alert System was in error due to possibly the wrong button being pressed. "State police said they received no calls related to the erroneous alert."[27] On June 26, 2007, the EAS in Illinois was activated at 7:35 a.m. CDT and issued an Emergency Action Notification Message for the United States. This was followed by dead air and then WGN radio (the station designated to simulcast the alert message) being played on almost every television and radio station in the Chicago area and throughout much of Illinois.[28] Instead of hearing official information, what viewers heard instead was a very confused Garry Meier from WCKG, who was wondering "what that beeping was all about". The accidental EAS activation was caused when a government contractor installing a new satellite receiver as part of a new national delivery path incorrectly left the receiver connected and wired to the state EOC's EAS transmitter before final closed circuit testing of the new delivery path had been completed. [29] On October 19, 2008, KWVE- FM in San Clemente, California was scheduled to conduct a Required Weekly Test. However, it conducted a Required Monthly Test by mistake, causing all stations and cable systems in the immediate area to relay the test. In addition, the operator aborted the test midway through, leading the station to fail to broadcast the SAME EOM burst to end the test, causing all area outlets to broadcast KWVE-FM's programming until those stations took their equipment offline.[30] On September 15, 2009, the Federal Communications Commission fined its licensee, Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, $5,000 for the botched EAS test. After the fine was levied, various state broadcast associations in the United States submitted joint letters to the FCC, protesting against the fine, saying that the FCC could have handled the matter better.[31] On November 13, 2009, the FCC rescinded its fine against KWVE-FM, but had still admonished the station for broadcasting an unauthorized RMT, as well as omitting the code to end the test.[32] On May 20, 2010, NOAA All-Hazards and CSEPP tone alert radios in the Hermiston, Oregon area, near the Umatilla Chemical Depot, were activated with an EAS alert shortly after 5 p.m. The message transmitted was for a severe thunderstorm warning, issued by the National Weather Service in Pendleton, but the transmission broadcast instead was a long period of silence, followed by a few words in Spanish. Umatilla County Emergency Management has stressed there was no emergency at the depot.[33] In October 2011, the FCC fined WHPR-FM in Highland Park, Michigan $22,000 for numerous violations, one of which was not having any EAS equipment in use; an employee of the station pointed out that the station's EAS decoder was stored in a closet.[35] On November 9, 2011, the first National EAS Test was conducted (as described above). Many people that were watching television or listening to radio reported barely hearing the audio, not seeing the video, hearing overlapping audio, or on cable and satellite systems which redirect to one certain channel slot to launch the test, were stuck on the EAS channel without routing to the test (such as a non-essential shopping channel, TV Guide Network, a Music Choice audio channel, or in DirecTV's case, a Sonic Tap audio channel airing Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" at the time).[36] On June 15, 2012, WNKY, the NBC/CBS affiliate in Bowling Green, Kentucky premiered an advertisement for a local licensed sports apparel store it produced, featuring EAS tones within the ad used in a non- emergency manner and went out over the station's main NBC signal and CBS digital subchannel. On November 5, 2013, the station's owner, Max Media, through its licensee, MMK License, was assessed a $39,000 fine (listed in the FCC's statement as a "voluntary contribution to the U.S. Treasury") by the FCC due to the ad. WNKY's digital channels, in addition to the FCC fine, will also launch a local campaign about the EAS through their programs and the station's website, air additional emergency preparation public service announcements, and lease space on their tower to the Warren County Emergency Management agency and the City of Bowling Green for modernized warning equipment. Additionally in the same manner, the FCC proposed a $25,000 fine against the cable network TBS and its corporate parent Time Warner for an inappropriate use of EAS tones within a 2012 promotional spot for their talk show Conan which had not been put past standards and practices; the use of tones was part of a promotion involving guest Jack Black.[37][38] On February 11, 2013, hackers broke into the EAS networks in Great Falls, Montana and Marquette, Michigan to broadcast an emergency alert that zombies have risen from their graves in several counties in Montana and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Stations KRTV in Great Falls, WBUP and WNMU-TV in Marquette broke into programming to broadcast the false alerts.[39] [40] Details on the hacking incident remain unknown at present, though a representative for Monroe Electronics, a maker and distributor of EAS equipment, mentioned that some stations do not change their logins or passwords, opting to use factory presets instead. Because of this, trade groups, including the Michigan Association of Broadcasters, urged broadcasters to change their passwords and to recheck their security measures.[41] On February 13, 2013, WIZM- FM in La Crosse, Wisconsin inadvertently triggered the EAS on WKBT-DT by playing a recording of the fake alert during its morning show.[42] The alert was seemingly inspired by the Anthrax song "Fight 'Em 'Til You Can't"; the message relayed in the incident lifted a quote from the song's introduction about a zombie uprising. The audio used, meanwhile, came from a video posted to YouTube in September 2008. [43] In March 2014, the EAS was activated in Orlando, Florida for a Child Abuction Emergency; the alert lasted for 30 seconds followed by dead air. On October 24, 2014, television viewers of certain stations in Atlanta, Detroit, and Austin reported seeing Emergency Action Notification messages and notifications that the programming was being interrupted by the White House, despite the fact that there was no real emergency.[44] The emergency alert originated at Nashville, Tennessee radio station WSIX-FM, where morning show host Bobby Bones replayed the 2011 EAS test as part of a rant about a genuine EAS test locally interrupting Game 2 of the 2014 World Series on October 22. The errant test was relayed to some radio and television stations and cable systems nationwide, as Bobby Bones' program was also broadcast on other Country-formatted stations, particularly those owned by WSIX-FM's parent company, iHeartMedia (formerly Clear Channel Communications).[45] On May 19, 2015, iHeartMedia was fined $1 million for the incident, and was ordered to implement a three-year compliance plan and remove all EAS tones or similar-sounding noises from its audio production libraries in order to avoid any further incidents.[46] On Saturday, September 3, 2016, television viewers in Suffolk County, New York saw a message crawl across their television screen erroneously calling for an evacuation of the entire county.[47] The message was intended to announce a voluntary evacuation order for Fire Island, a barrier beach community threatened by Tropical Storm Hermine. Instead, what showed up on television screens at 7:40 p.m. on read, “Civil Authorities have issued an Evacuation Immediate for the following New York counties: Suffolk. Effective until September 04–07:10 AM EDT. This is an emergency message from.” It ended there. According to Newsday, a spokeswoman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency said its officials are investigating why the message, sent by Suffolk County Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services (FRES), was shortened. About 10 to 15 minutes after the first message, the original warning reappeared with the new message — “UPDATED Message — Voluntary evacuation of Fire Island ONLY by 1 pm Saturday 9/4/16” — tacked onto the end. Greg Miniutti, chief of communication for FRES, stated that the dispatch supervisor who sends the alert typed in the message correctly through the county’s Code Red system. FEMA spokeswoman Lauren Lefebvre said the original message that appeared on television is generated automatically by the computer system. The agency is investigating why the rest of the county’s message wasn’t broadcast. The error generated a flood of 911 calls.[47] During the second National Periodic on September 28, 2016, many viewers of DirecTV and DISH, the same two cable operators affected by the first National Periodic in 2011, complained that they were once again not able to see or hear the audio of the test. One PEP in Cleveland, NBC3, had the test freeze halfway through and change to a static screen, in which the audio was overmixed and loud enough to blow out TV speakers and cause hearing loss at point-blank. The screen then froze without playing the audio message and changed to the PEP channel and EOM blasts were heard shortly after. A YouTube video [48] also showed the test coming in the form of a repeated Child Abduction Emergency with garbled sound. 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on a train? […] Do you like
When “Could you, would you on a train” appeared as an EAS message on the TV in the shot screen shot in the article posted by our resident conspiracy theorist freak, Deckard, it was probably from a spurious signal that triggered one of the three false positive alert reactions in the EAS equipment and viewers were seeing the accidental pickup and transmission from some station broadcasting Green Eggs and Ham as part of their normal programming. This all happened under a circumstance similar to the incident reported on below when a station was broadcasting an ARCO advertisement as part of their normal programming and because of a glitch, the words "This test has been brought to you by ARCO" were formulated by the system and broadcast over the EAS in the following incident.
green eggs and ham
Here or there?
Not in a car! You let me be.
I do not like them in a box.
I do not like them with a fox
I do not like them in a house
I do mot like them with a mouse
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere.
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
A train! A train!
Could you, would you
on a train?
[Boldness Added]
Not in a car! Sam! Let me be!
I would not, could not, in a box.
I could not, would not, with a fox.
I will not eat them with a mouse
I will not eat them in a house.
I will not eat them here or there.
I will not eat them anywhere.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am. During September 2010, the staff of KCST-FM in Florence, Oregon noticed that the station's EAS equipment would repeatedly unmute as if receiving an incoming EAS message several times a week. During each event, which was relayed from KKNU in Springfield, the same commercial advertisement for ARCO/BP gasoline could be heard, along with the words "This test has been brought to you by ARCO". Further investigation by the primary station transmitting the commercial revealed that the spot had been produced using an audio clip of an actual EAS header which had been modified to lower the header's volume and presumably prevent it from triggering false positive alert reactions in EAS equipment. The spot was distributed nationally, and after it had once been identified as the source of the false EAS equipment trips, various stations around the country reported having had similar experiences. After a widespread notification by the Society of Broadcast Engineers was issued, ARCO's ad agency withdrew the commercial from airplay.[34]McKenzie River Broadcasting, the parent company of KKNU, was later served with a Notice of Apparent Liability with a forfeiture amount of $10,000 for having played the commercial advertisement containing the header tones. This issue, once considered resolved without a fine being levied, resurfaced in 2013, holding up KKNU's license renewal application. Ultimately, no action by the FCC was taken and the license renewal was granted.
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#4. To: Gatlin, buckeroo (#0)
What a colossal tool! I pointed out repeatedly that even the affected station ADMITTED that its EAS had been hacked, and now you post more of the same ignorant bullshit. Yes mistakes can happen, but this was a deliberate act, not an accident, not a "glitch". FEMA’s Emergency Alert System Hacked: Warns of Hazardous Materials Disaster In a comment on that same Facebook Post, the KTNV then claimed that the EAS alert was hacked by an outside source saying: FEMA replied that they did not send this out. They will launch a full investigation into how their codes were hacked. WKTV seems to be the only target of this hack. For now, we have disabled the codes in our decoder that trigger this alert. If there is a real National Alert, we will still receive it from the local radio stations we are assigned to monitor. WKTV will cooperate fully with FEMA, providing information about our hardware, software and internet access, and will provide log files from our devices. This information will be helpful to FEMA to track down the source of this hack. ***** Keep doubling down on your insanity queerbait.
That is how the system is designed to work. But that is not how the system always works, which was the case at KCST-FM in Florence Oregon when the text was generated for EAS from an advertisement by ARCO several times a week. “Would You? Could You? On a Train?” And neither was the phrasing in the ARCO advertisement that was also transmitted on the EAS. There are at least two possibilities for the transmission on the EAS of: “Would You? Could You? On a Train?” One possibility is that the system was hacked like it was on February 11, 2013, when hackers broke into the EAS networks in Great Falls, Montana and Marquette, Michigan to broadcast an emergency alert that zombies have risen from their graves in several counties in Montana and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. [Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is where you work in a TV station, do you remember the incident] Stations KRTV in Great Falls, WBUP and WNMU-TV in Marquette broke into programming to broadcast the false alerts. Details on the hacking incident remain unknown at present, though a representative for Monroe Electronics, a maker and distributor of EAS equipment, mentioned that some stations do not change their logins or passwords, opting to use factory presets instead. Because of this, trade groups, including the Michigan Association of Broadcasters, urged broadcasters to change their passwords and to recheck their security measures. Another possibility is that once again the system somehow accidentally generated the EAS equipment like happened when the ARCO advertisement triggered the EAS equipment repeatedly as it would unmute as if receiving an incoming EAS message several times a week. During each event, which was relayed from KKNU in Springfield, the same commercial advertisement for ARCO/BP gasoline could be heard, along with the words "This test has been brought to you by ARCO". But it did happen, that a spurious signal message about an ARCO advertisement made its way into the EAS and was sent out multiple times before the source was located and the system was restored to normal operation. So, I look at the situation objectively and say that there are definitely at least the two possibilities as covered above on how the phrase from the lyrics of a song by Dr. Seuss titled Green Eggs And Ham could get into the EAS system an be transmitted. I lean to the possibility of an inadvertent transmission from within the system because there was no malicious action taken since only the very short phrase was sent out. You however have locked yourself into the single-minded believe that the incident could ONLY have been perpetrated by a hacker. You apparently do this because you have programmed your brain to be devious and jump instantaneously to some conspiracy theory or intentional destructive action. That is just something the station posted on Facebook. I find it hard to believe that the statin determined this in that short time since they furnished no information on the alleged hacking. I think that the station was using the “hack” allegation to deflect from any possible gaffe they had unknowingly and inadvertently performed at the time. But I will still admit with an open mind there is a possibility of hacking, while you on the other hand have an extremely closed mind and will only admit to what you singularly WANT to believe. If FEMA does not know “how” their codes were hacked, then I don’t think they know that there codes were hacked at all. The “full investigation” by FEMA should disclose what actually occurred….one would hope that.
#8. To: Gatlin (#7)
If FEMA does not know “how” their codes were hacked, then I don’t think they know that there codes were hacked at all. They KNOW the codes were hacked, they don't as of yet know how. Hence the need for an investigation. With all due respect, you're insane.
To set the record straight, FEMA doesn't know their ass from a hole in the ground. I have worked with FEMA on the higher levels in a few instances and evey time they seem to be pulling their ideas from either a magic eight-ball or an "Oujia board for Dumbasses". This next part is partly opinion, but it supports the "Weez wuz Haxxor'd" scenario: From the way these EAS broadcasts are performed, the equipment unmutes when it hears a SAME header. This header is repeated several times to be verified by comparing each header to the other to make sure there aren't any errors. These headers contain signatures such as originating organization, duration, timing, actual event message (text), affected areas, and originating station. This information can be retrieved if necessary. Once the headers are confirmed, an attention tone is played. The next part is any audio, video, or video text of the actual message. These are deliberate media that are created to convey the emergency message. The system is not designed to pick up other broadcasts and incorporate them into the message arbitrarily. That doesn't mean that it hasn't happened before, but the receiving station will not generate video text from other broadcasts at any rate. -As in the ARCO incident, the EAS system equipment was merely activated; it did not send out any broadcasts because the system could not confirm the header message. Investigation into the EAS equipment itself revealed the faint sound of the ARCO commercial since that system was not broadcasting anything from EAS.- I suspect that someone was able to transmit a complete header/attention/message/tail with a video text message that conveyed the information. This information would be traceable to an extent. I do not believe that some lazy fool at a broadcasting station was creating a test message with a line from Dr. Seuss' book titled Green Eggs and Ham and just *accidentally* hit the send button. (Yes, it is a book, not a song. Nice research, Barney Fife. Glad you are on the case.) If the station says that it was hacked, perhaps there is some merit to that announcement. It sounds much more plausible than "Jerry was just fooling around with the keyboard again...".
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#7. To: Deckard (#4)
The text is generated from the system itself –
During September 2010, the staff of KCST-FM in Florence, Oregon noticed that the station's Further investigation by the primary station transmitting the commercial revealed that the spot had been produced using an audio clip of an actual EAS header which had been modified to lower the header's volume and presumably prevent it from triggering false positive alert reactions in EAS equipment. The spot was distributed nationally, and after it had once been identified as the source of the false EAS equipment trips, various stations around the country reported having had similar experiences. After a widespread notification by the Society of Broadcast Engineers was issued, ARCO's ad agency withdrew the commercial from airplay.[34]McKenzie River Broadcasting, the parent company of KKNU, was later served with a Notice of Apparent Liability with a forfeiture amount of $10,000 for having played the commercial advertisement containing the header tones. This issue, once considered resolved without a fine being levied, resurfaced in 2013, holding up KKNU's license renewal application. Ultimately, no action by the FCC was taken and the license renewal was granted.
The phrase is NOT one that would be generated accidentally by a station.
I pointed out repeatedly that even the affected station ADMITTED that its EAS had been hacked…
FEMA replied that they did not send this out. They will launch a full investigation into how their codes were hacked.
Replies to Comment # 7. FEMA replied that they did not send this out. They will launch a full investigation into how their codes were hacked.
#9. To: Gatlin (#7)
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If FEMA does not know “how” their codes were hacked, then I don’t think they know that there codes were hacked at all.
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