[EAS] Part 11

[ed.czarnecki at monroe-electronics.com]

Spoofing a page, DoS attack, exploited RSS elements, etc.  The IPAWS RSS feed from the aggregator will include a digital certificate, and potentially other security safeguards as well.  

The FNRPM, however, is interesting in distinguishing that governors' alerting should come from state CAP RSS sources, while IPAWS presents Federal CAP alerts on its RSS feed.  THE FNRPM indicates that state systems should use the same methodology as the FEMA RSS feed - does this include adding digital certificates as well as other potential validation methods?  

However, in practice, this may pose more complications than the FCC may have initially considered.  What of the cost burden and maintenance that states would have to create a secured RSS feed akin to IPAWS?  What about those numerous states that have *already* spent considerable sums on CAP systems that may provide higher reliability and security delivery than RSS?

Edward Czarnecki, Ph.D.
Senior Director - Strategy, Development and Regulatory Affairs
Monroe Electronics, Inc. / Digital Alert Systems
ed.czarnecki at monroe-electronics.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ira Wilner [mailto:iwilner at monadnockradiogroup.com]

I'd be troubled about frequency of polling of the web page for RSS changesand the ability to spoof a page.--Ira********************************************************************* -----Original Message-----From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] OnBehalf Of ed.czarnecki at monroe-electronics.comThere are risks and vulnerabilities with RSS feeds for the originator aswell as readers (or RSS aggregators) for the receiver that are worthdiscussing. Edward Czarnecki, Ph.D.Senior Director - Strategy, Development and Regulatory Affairs MonroeElectronics, Inc. / Digital Alert Systemsed.czarnecki at monroe-electronics.comwww.monroe-electronics.comwww.digitalalertsystems.com_______________________________________________This is the EAS Forum Discussion ListPlease invite your friends to join our Forum!http://lists.radiolists.net/mailman/listinfo/easAnd, remember the main page: http://eas.radiolists.net