From: fatkinson@mishmash.com   
      
   > Garrett Wollmann  wrote:   
   >> Fred Atkinson  wrote:   
   >> You are splitting hairs here in a semantics issue.   
      
   >> Suppose the cellular infrastructure is down due to an attack on our   
   >> nation.   
      
   >> Think you are going to get those alerts then?   
      
   > Such an attack would also take out the broadcast infrastructure,   
   > which is a lot more physically concentrated and easier to disrupt.   
      
   Maybe, or maybe not.   
      
   No doubt some of the stations would [go] down.   
      
   But maybe not all of them.   
      
   They are not entirely dependent upon network programming.   
      
   Have you ever heard the term 'Single point of failure'?   
      
   I would say that both the Internet and the Cellular network are   
   exactly that.   
      
   Broadcast stations, not as much!   
      
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