[EAS] Next Generation

[Mike McCarthy]

As I recall, this method was vetted when EAS was first being developed. 
It was declined for a couple reasons, one of them being single point of
failure (missle, solar flare, debris/ateroid, etc.)

However, not all stations have access to a satellite dish compound to add
a dish or a complete view of the sky. Nor do all of them look at one
common bird.(PBS/NPR and EMF are about 500 of those stations who don't
look at AMC-8 for example.)  Never mind the TV stations.

I don't disagree with the KISS premise that a single distribution method
for this type of messages would be the most secure and ubitquitous. My
suggestion for the electronic red envelope message authentication follows
the KISS concept.

MM

On Sat, November 15, 2014 12:29 am, RobertM wrote:
>

> It reminds me of an old story. NASA spent 10s of millions of dollars to
> try to develop a ballpoint pen that worked in zero gravity. The Russians
> issued Cosmonauts pencils.  Keep it simple. A direct satellite feed to
> each station. We can do it for close to zero cost. KISS is usually the