[EAS] How to log the Indiana Tornado Warning Error

[Kenyon, Alfred]

Following an extensive investigation including examination of server logs by the alerting system provider we have found that there is no evidence of hacking or intentional false generation of an alert. It was simply a case where a garbled message was ingested by an alerting system provider and distributed according to the surviving message data header. There is no indication of fault on behalf of the alerting system provider.

The EAS Participants that relayed the TOR warning Tuesday morning may want to note in their logs that the received alert was an "Incorrect alert with a valid EAS header received from an authorized alerting source which resulted from a garbled message upstream."

I do not presume to speak on behalf of the FCC. NAB counsel, on behalf of the Indiana Broadcasters Association, ran this draft log entry by Greg Cooke in the FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Branch for his opinion and he indicated that it sounded fine to him.

Al Kenyon
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