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U.S. tackles Emergency Alert System insecurity
By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Aug 12 2004 6:17PM

The U.S. Emergency Alert System (EAS) that lets officials instantly
interrupt radio and T.V. broadcasts to provide emergency information in
a crisis suffers from security holes that leave it vulnerable to denial
of service attacks, and could even permit hackers to issue their own
false regional alerts, federal regulators acknowledged Thursday.

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/9324