Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

[Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com>]

On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 12:37 PM Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Matthew Petach wrote:
> > Well, today's alert still showed up as "Presidential Alert", so I guess
> the
> > US hasn't quite finished changing over yet.  ^_^;
> > (Samsung Galaxy phone)
>
> Yeah, Samsung is bad about releasing software updates for its older (a few
> months old) products.
>
> Think about out-of-date security patches :-) if Samsung doesn't update a
> text field.


Ah, I didn't realize that was locally set on the device--I thought that was
part of the message header in the message being sent out.

Thanks for the clarification.  ^_^

Matt