U-Verse customers report strange emergency message

FOXAtlanta ^ | Oct 24, 2014 8:02 AM PDT | Will Nunley

[BenLurkin]

The FOX 5 Newsroom received multiple calls from concerned AT U-Verse customers Friday after an emergency message appeared on their screens.

The message, claiming to be an emergency alert issued by The White House, notified viewers that their programming was being re-directed to another channel. The alert is part of the EAN or Emergency Alert Notification. Engineers with FOX 5 say the alert can only be activated by the President in times of emergency.

U-Verse engineers tell FOX 5 staff the message appeared on screens around Atlanta, Detroit, Michigan and Austin, Texas.

Callers from across the FOX 5 viewing area reported the message.

There are no known actual emergency alerts that would have prompted activation of the government's Emergency Alert Notification System, which is used by broadcasters and the government to warn of emergency situations.

[yldstrk]

Creepy

[molson209]

Obama getting ready for his , I’m Taking Over speech ?

[Gamecock]

Testing it for election day. Nationwide quarantine. Election is cancelled indefinitely. </tinfoil hat>

[Cowboy Bob]

Notice that the cities are Liberal strongholds?

[DoughtyOne]

Perhaps the White Hut took over, and is trying to warn U. S. Citizens there’s a traitor lurking around inside.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Did anyone else experience a “Dont Call Us, We are aware of the problem” type message throughout Game 2 of the WS on DirecTV? Both on the live and recorded channel.

[BenLurkin]

Such an act would aggravate a great many people.

[CJ Wolf]

Hack?

[john316]

you ever heard of an outfit called ECOMCON?

[hoagy62]

No doubt. I think it’d be the “Go signal” for SOMEONE to say “Enough!” (I’m thinking the military).

[Da Coyote]

“you ever heard of an outfit called ECOMCON?”

Indeed.

This time, I’m on their side.

[molson209]

Such an act would aggravate a great many people.

Maybe you missed it but he has already taken over ,he just needs the speech

[Buckeye McFrog]

Obama getting ready for his , I’m Taking Over speech ?

If you know anything about EAS, he has all the technology in place to do it.

[DoughtyOne]

No

[Wyatt's Torch]

The @Uverse twitter feed is filled with apologies. Example:

AT&T U-verse @Uverse
@WellsDunbar We’re investigating why this occurred and working toward a resolution. We apologize for the inconvenience this morning.

[DoughtyOne]

Just looked it up and have a rough idea now. Appears to be a fictional entity in the movie “Seven Days in May”.

[MeshugeMikey]

pre election chaos... technique

[M Kehoe]

Interesting.

5.56mm

[PIF]

Chinese/Russian/Islamic hackers.