[196310] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: California fires: smart speakers and emergency alerts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG)
Tue Oct 17 05:28:03 2017
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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 08:48:04 -0700
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: "Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: "Aaron C. de Bruyn" <aaron@heyaaron.com>
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
> A smart speaker suddenly announcing "There is a tornado warning in this
> area, would you like to hear more?" will probably freak-out those same
> non-technical people.
Simple programming problem.
Speaker: "There is a tornado warning in this area, would you like to hear more?"
User: "How did you get my phone number?"
Speaker: "You have opted out of tornado warnings"
Fast forward to the next tornado and techno-darwinism will take effect.
Alternatively you could have the speaker ramble on for 10-15 minutes
about how the weather alerting system works and maybe the end-user
will hang around long enough listening to the explanation...
-A
