text: UPDATE: [The Great Falls Tribune has posted a story](http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20130212/NEWS01/302120010/Montana-s-zombie-hoax-likely-linked-similar-false-alert-Michigan) with more details and which also mentions the Michigan hacks. Reporter Michael Beall spoke with the manager of the Michigan ABC station I mentioned in my post, who said authorities there have identified a suspect in at least one of the hacking incidents there. Beall’s story… Continue reading UPDATED: Hackers transmit zombie alerts over EAS in Great Falls and Michigan
  Published February 12, 2013
  Categorized as Web Stuff Tagged Associated Press, CAP, Common Alerting Protocol, EAS, Emergency Alert System, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, Great Falls Tribune, IPAWS-OPEN, KRTV, WBUP, WNMU, zombies
  Tester appeals to FCC chairman on behalf of rural broadband
  Jon Tester
  Montana Sen. Jon Tester has sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, asking that plans for encouraging broadband growth in America do not harm programs that are already in place specifically to help rural areas. He is concerned primarily with the Universal Service Fund, which the Montana Democrat says has “a long history of… Continue reading Tester appeals to FCC chairman on behalf of rural broadband
  Published April 5, 2011
  Categorized as Local Stuff, Web Stuff Tagged broadband, Federal Communications Commission, Jon Tester, Julius Genachowski, Universal Service Fund