Article 2JMCD Dallas's 156 tornado sirens hacked and repeatedly set off in the middle of Saturday night

Dallas's 156 tornado sirens hacked and repeatedly set off in the middle of Saturday night

by
Cory Doctorow
from on (#2JMCD)

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If you've ever witnessed an emergency siren test, you know how terrifying these things are: engineered to be bowel-looseningly urgent, to pierce through any sense that it's probably just a misfire, to motivate you to drop everything and rush for the emergency shelters, equally useful for tornadoes and incoming ICBMs. (more")

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