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Old 18-04-2023, 09:12 AM #1
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I have just turned this nonsense off
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Oliver Dowden
said it can not be hacked.

3PM today

Good to test it.


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i disabled the alarm for the test
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i disabled the alarm for the test

Yes quite a few have
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Switched my alerts off and just to make sure I will be putting airplane mode on and turning off my phone.
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i actually agree with RM.

The only real emergency will be something like an incoming nuke, and there is nothing we can do about that anyway
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Read out in an American accent?
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I got it at 14.59.

It said 'Severe alert'.
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I got it at 14.59.

It said 'Severe alert'.
on my phone you have the option to disable severe and/or extreme alerts
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I got it at 14.59.

It said 'Severe alert'.


Yes, it appears we all got it 1min early
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I got it at 14.59.

It said 'Severe alert'.
I was looking for the Red Dwarf emergency alert clip when it happened.
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Quite 'alarming' actually.
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i got nothing
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I got it a minute early also. Very loud.
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I thought I'd switched it off but obviously not. Which is weird as I did the same on my son's phone, he didn't get it but I did
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i remained blissfully ignorant
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Its a bit of a concern for anyone with a secret phone as it was loud.
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i re-enabled it just now and it still came in
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I shall not be re-enabling mine then.
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We were on a train so it was late as in tunnel quite amusing when all the phones went off ...think its a good thing particularly if you are in a flood risk area ...
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Typical of you
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