Seeing a lot of WEA/EAS messages being sent to Barnsdall, Oklahoma... It appears they have few other communications tools with residents after tornadoes hit the town several days ago. #OKwx#comms#Barnsdall#ef3
hired a very special boy for a very special announcement :)
doing it a bit different this time to see if it helps with the stress of comms! send in a response to this google form with your commission details and i'll get back to you! thank you for bearing with me 🐀❤️
Communications Outage (forwarded from FEMA Region 5) from earlier today, on the ATT telecom outage (which appears to now be restored):
"According to open source reporting AT&T is experiencing network outages across the United States. Customers are not able to send or receive phone calls (including texts) on AT&T network devices and the outage are also affecting FirstNet (AT&T) which is a network for first responders. All affected areas are not yet known at this time...."
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So, my Dad is $500 in the hole.
I barely have enough rn to pay our utilities. If you'd be willing to do a #donation instead, we'd be forever grateful. Ko-fi link in the reply👇
#comms $30 for a full-color character portrait, $40 in total to add light shading, $50 to add a detailed background, plus $10 for each character you want to add to the portrait.
Bonus for students of my first aid class today, is I tuned into the ISS (International Space Station) #hamradio repeater, showing how amateur radio operators can communicate via space. (Not on the syllabus, but the timing was perfect). There was someone calling folks from Albuquerque, which was pretty impressive to them. #ISS#space#comms
"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has accused Facebook of putting "profits ahead of people's safety" after it blocked news amid devastating wildfires in the country.
Facebook banned news on its platform in response to Canadian law forcing it to share profit with news outlets.
#Maui#Lahaina#Hawaii "EAS for Maui County: The 911 system in West Maui is not working, please call the Maui PD in Lahaina directly at 808-661-4441 to report any emergencies. Source: Hawaii Emergency Management Agency" #911#comms#wildfire#HIwx
For decades police/military/intel agencies/critical infrastructure in 120 nations relied on #TETRA#radio standard to #secure#critical#comms. But #Dutch researchers examined #secret#algorithms used in TETRA and found something startling - an intentional backdoor.
This and other problems the researchers found with TETRA would allow malicious actors to decrypt communications and also, in some cases, send malicious commands to critical infrastructure or send fake messages to police/military radios to disrupt their operations
TETRA uses 80-bit keys in its encryption algorithms, but the researchers found that one of these algorithms has a secret reduction feature that reduces the key to 32 bits - which the researchers were able to crack in less than 1 minute using standard laptop and just 4 ciphertexts
I just got a "thank you" email for attending the #NFB23 Convention virtually. It thanked participants and hit on key highlights there in and was a very nice touch. #Comms well-done over there @Mastodon at nationsblind@nfb.social
Now let's see #ACBNational#ACB23 follow suit.
Alright. I will admit - I don't like a lot of the vibe on #Threads, don't like how they are promoting celebrities, or how clout and status centric it has been from literally the first hours at launch... BUT
Because I'm a #marketing and #comms professional, I do think I'll be staying there as long as others do. I'm already finding other marketing & #SEO people who I haven't been in touch with since Twitter in Nov. + lovely to reconnect with the #Notion community.