Did brainless flaw in US Emergency Alert System lead to epic zombie attack warning?

Emergency broadcast systems come packed with vulnerabilities, the most severe of which is the public disclosure of the default private root SSH key, a security firm has disclosed.

Such flaws well may have been at the heart of a warning about the zombie apocalypse that proved, at the very best, to be premature.

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