Bogus Security Alerts Hit National Weather Service

kobee writes "The National Weather Service is adding a confirmation dialog to their system for issuing regional EAS (Emergency Alert System) warnings, after it accidently alerted parts of Florida and Georgia to a bogus radiological emergency Wednesday. Wired News reports an NWS operator 'entered the code "RHW" instead of "RWT," keying a radiological hazard warning instead of a required weekly test.' Something similiar occured in Las Vegas the day before."

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Patterns??

[Chaotic Spyder]

I just got word from a cilent that the NT4.0 servers that I spent the last week and a half building for him are not actually NT4.0 but WIN2K...(Don't even bother asking why.. I spent much time discussing this with my boss)

Haha.. Canadian Gov.. Tax money well spent....

Now I read that Florida got a Radiation warning instead of a test... wow.. What's next??? Microsoft releases OSS that is secure and easy to use????