Since the attack requires physical presence and the two places hit aren't that big, this really doesn't look much like an international coordinates cyber attack.
And I said nothing about blaming the victim, though they might should look into an upgrade.
If the intent was purely demonstration, the best way is to set the sirens off a minute before the weekly test. That way, you let the people running the system know they have a problem without panicking the population.
Setting them off in the wee hours suggests a really annoying and poorly thought out prank.There should be consequences for that, but not the hang-em-high OMG terrorists! sort of consequences some have suggested here.
These systems don't use TCP/IP over the cell network. They have a radio receiver and listen for an activation signal. That signal is transmitted periodically to test the system. They don't even do two way, the siren is rx only.
To secure them, the controller has to be replaced.
Exercise has been tried for CFS for decades. It tends to make it worse. CBT has been tried for decades. It doesn't show signs of making it better. It can be useful to devise coping mechanisms, but to pretend that is will actually make the patient objectively better (as opposed to just helping them make the most of what they have) is not helpful.
The difference is that CBT is quite unlikely to cause harm. Many CFS patients have experienced harm from the "graded exercise" that the PACE study also suggested.
It turns out that the study in question has been debunked. The analysis was fudged. The fudged results are still being used to guide treatment of sufferers.
You're missing an aspect here. If you walk on a broken foot out of necessity by whatever means, you do further damage and keep it from ever healing. You could even convert it to a compound fracture.
As it turns out, the study suggesting a psychological approach has been debumked by other researchers It seems the analysis was fudged. The researcher is being "bullied" the same way Wakefield was after his vaccine=autism paper was debunked and he kept doubling down on gis claim.
Even before that paper was specifically debunked, the course of treatment is recommended had been tried for a decade or two already and indeed had only made things worse for a number of people.
So, imagine you have a broken foot. For yars you were told there's nothing physically wronk, you could walk on it normally if you would just try. You were denied further disability and told to get back to work. Treatment plans are mad involving CBT to "allow you to deal with the normal sensations of walking on a perfectly good foot that you are somehow interpreting as extreme pain". When your foot swells to twice it's normal size, you're told that's caused by your psychosomatic pain. Then after 10 years some doctors started saying you know, it looks like there may be a physical aspect to this. Then some clown comes along with fudged data that claims the only real problem is that you haven't been practicing walking on your foot enough.
Given that, might you be tempted to make a few "mean tweets"?
I'm not personally invested in this, but I do feel empathy for people stuck in that situation. I also hate when people use fudged data to support strategies that have already been tried and tried again and again to no success.
You should REALLY do more background reading. The study you cite as evidence was well debunked by other psychologists and medical researchers. There is considerable evidence for the physiological theory. Other research suggests that the graduated exercise therapy in the debunked study is actively harmful to the patient. Here's some background.
The difference is that CFS HAS for a long time been treated as a psychological illness. It took years for anyone outside of the sufferers to even consider the possibility that it might not be psychological. Notably, people weren't getting better with a psychological approach. Sharpe's PACE study has been strongly rebutted already by other researchers.
In the case of back pain, the various forms of fusion surgery have been a complete failure. For years, surgical centers didn't let that stop them from promising miracles even as research demonstrated that the "abnormalities" on MRI claimed to be the source of the pain were equally likely to show up in pain free control subjects. However, there is still a strong belief that there is a physical basis for back pain, psychology (and anti-depressants) are considered a useful adjunct to physical therapy.
Here is some relevant background on CFS treatment and why patients are so vehemently against any claim that CBT and especially "graded exercise" is at all useful for CFS.
That's the benefit of the back propagating spam fee. Each carrier in the chain gets the choice to either propagate the fee back towards the caller or eat the cost itself (guess which they'll choose!).
Only in the sense that Wakefield was "bullied" over his paper claiming a link between vaccination and autism. Perhape the three of you can find a safe space somewhere.
The research in question has already been refuted simply by re-analysing the data presented. The "bullies" as you call them stand to be personally harmed by the bogus conclusions.
They already know the ID of the caller. Have you ever heard of the phone company giving away free service because they couldn't figure out who to bill?
How about telling them that the virus kicks it off for the first few hours, but the week of sniffles, aches, and tiredness are just psycho-social issues prolonging the symptions? So quit complaining and get to work!
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Then we will incentivize them. They can either pass the fee on or pay it themselves.
That would do it.
The actual study is paywalled.
Since the attack requires physical presence and the two places hit aren't that big, this really doesn't look much like an international coordinates cyber attack.
And I said nothing about blaming the victim, though they might should look into an upgrade.
Name calling, what a rebuttal. So tell us OH exaulted one, what is actually wrong about what I said?
More like a lot of weekends of community service. Perhaps helping to upgrade the system.
Said service while wearing a sign reading "I'm the dipshit that thought it was funny to wake you up with the tornado sirens".
If the intent was purely demonstration, the best way is to set the sirens off a minute before the weekly test. That way, you let the people running the system know they have a problem without panicking the population.
Setting them off in the wee hours suggests a really annoying and poorly thought out prank.There should be consequences for that, but not the hang-em-high OMG terrorists! sort of consequences some have suggested here.
Terrorist or prankster? Let's see, manifesto? nope. Political demand? nope. People intentionally hurt? Nope.
Is the prank harmless? No, not really, there is potential for harm here, but it's exactly the sort of harm that often doesn't occur to pranksters.
By all means, find them, and give them community service.
These systems don't use TCP/IP over the cell network. They have a radio receiver and listen for an activation signal. That signal is transmitted periodically to test the system. They don't even do two way, the siren is rx only.
To secure them, the controller has to be replaced.
That's the easy way, easy so that someone with no particular skill can follow the directions and be successful.
The "hard way" just requires a radio receiver in range listening when you open your garage door.
On some really old door openers, you can use a universal remote that just brute forces it.
"Mean" tweets are not threats.
Read this. Follow the links.
Exercise has been tried for CFS for decades. It tends to make it worse. CBT has been tried for decades. It doesn't show signs of making it better. It can be useful to devise coping mechanisms, but to pretend that is will actually make the patient objectively better (as opposed to just helping them make the most of what they have) is not helpful.
The difference is that CBT is quite unlikely to cause harm. Many CFS patients have experienced harm from the "graded exercise" that the PACE study also suggested.
It turns out that the study in question has been debunked. The analysis was fudged. The fudged results are still being used to guide treatment of sufferers.
I mean let's stop pretending the millionaires got there through some mysterious virtue rather than dumb luck.
You sound like one of those temporarily embarrassed millionaires that perpetuate the myth against your own best interests.
You're missing an aspect here. If you walk on a broken foot out of necessity by whatever means, you do further damage and keep it from ever healing. You could even convert it to a compound fracture.
As it turns out, the study suggesting a psychological approach has been debumked by other researchers It seems the analysis was fudged. The researcher is being "bullied" the same way Wakefield was after his vaccine=autism paper was debunked and he kept doubling down on gis claim.
Even before that paper was specifically debunked, the course of treatment is recommended had been tried for a decade or two already and indeed had only made things worse for a number of people.
So, imagine you have a broken foot. For yars you were told there's nothing physically wronk, you could walk on it normally if you would just try. You were denied further disability and told to get back to work. Treatment plans are mad involving CBT to "allow you to deal with the normal sensations of walking on a perfectly good foot that you are somehow interpreting as extreme pain". When your foot swells to twice it's normal size, you're told that's caused by your psychosomatic pain. Then after 10 years some doctors started saying you know, it looks like there may be a physical aspect to this. Then some clown comes along with fudged data that claims the only real problem is that you haven't been practicing walking on your foot enough.
Given that, might you be tempted to make a few "mean tweets"?
I'm not personally invested in this, but I do feel empathy for people stuck in that situation. I also hate when people use fudged data to support strategies that have already been tried and tried again and again to no success.
You should REALLY do more background reading. The study you cite as evidence was well debunked by other psychologists and medical researchers. There is considerable evidence for the physiological theory. Other research suggests that the graduated exercise therapy in the debunked study is actively harmful to the patient. Here's some background.
The difference is that CFS HAS for a long time been treated as a psychological illness. It took years for anyone outside of the sufferers to even consider the possibility that it might not be psychological. Notably, people weren't getting better with a psychological approach. Sharpe's PACE study has been strongly rebutted already by other researchers.
In the case of back pain, the various forms of fusion surgery have been a complete failure. For years, surgical centers didn't let that stop them from promising miracles even as research demonstrated that the "abnormalities" on MRI claimed to be the source of the pain were equally likely to show up in pain free control subjects. However, there is still a strong belief that there is a physical basis for back pain, psychology (and anti-depressants) are considered a useful adjunct to physical therapy.
Here is some relevant background on CFS treatment and why patients are so vehemently against any claim that CBT and especially "graded exercise" is at all useful for CFS.
That's the benefit of the back propagating spam fee. Each carrier in the chain gets the choice to either propagate the fee back towards the caller or eat the cost itself (guess which they'll choose!).
Only in the sense that Wakefield was "bullied" over his paper claiming a link between vaccination and autism. Perhape the three of you can find a safe space somewhere.
The research in question has already been refuted simply by re-analysing the data presented. The "bullies" as you call them stand to be personally harmed by the bogus conclusions.
They already know the ID of the caller. Have you ever heard of the phone company giving away free service because they couldn't figure out who to bill?
And yet, nobody tries to treat clinical depression psychologically anymore except possibly as an adjunct to anti-depressants.
How about telling them that the virus kicks it off for the first few hours, but the week of sniffles, aches, and tiredness are just psycho-social issues prolonging the symptions? So quit complaining and get to work!
Stress can be a contributor but isn't a necessary pre-condition.Either way, to make it go away you will do well to take antibiotics.
Dig deeper. What evidence?