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It's come to my mind that someone could easily cause a small panic transmitting a fake EAS broadcast about some disaster or attack over FM stations duting heavy traffic in a city. Never heard of anyone doing it though. In high school I did play a fake alert from youtube about incoming nukes through the aux-in of a portable radio and had someone believing it for a minute.



Next you will be shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theatre!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...


Reminds me of The War of the Worlds:

> The program has become famous for supposedly tricking some of its listeners into believing that a Martian invasion was actually taking place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_d...


IIRC, most radio stations get their EMS broadcasts by listening to another station. So if you can spoof the right one…




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