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I can almost guarantee this was just a kid messing around. There's no real motive for anyone else.

• bdavisx 10y ago
  I'm not saying that I agree that it was a foreign power that did this, but there are motives. If you can turn the sirens on and keep them on for a while, you can probably turn them off and keep them off for a while. That could be bad in a situation where they really, really needed to be turned on.
• foota 10y ago
  The nation state actor who cried "BWOOOOOOOOOO"? That is, if you turn on the sirens often enough, maybe they'll be ignored in an emergency.
  • lightbyte 10y ago
    That might be more plausible when it starts happening repeatedly. It's hard to compare it to the boy who cried wolf when we only have a single occurrence.
• ivyirwin 10y ago
  While I agree this is the most obvious suspect, the crippling effect it had on emergency services like 911 probably got the attention of more nefarious players.
• joecool1029 10y ago
  >I can almost guarantee this was just a kid messing around. Or someone pushed the wrong button. Remember, this is the same city that threw T-Mobile under the bus a month ago saying their callers were 'ghost calling' their 911 system with a bug causing the lines to clog. In that case, it turned out to be actual callers trying to get through and the calls weren't being answered because a quarter of the already understaffed call center called out. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas-city-hall/2017/03/20/dallas-911-back-track-saturday-misses-target-sunday-call-takers-call-sick https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas-city-hall/2017/03/20/... So yeah, I'm not betting on hackers for this one. I'm betting on incompetence.