Thanks to my rusty Italian and general laziness, I had ignored the sign marking the box as an emergency alarm.

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The emergency contacts (ICE) menu is proving to be a Pandora's Box of lock screen vulnerabilities on several Samsung Galaxy handsets.

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Sure, part of the bill will pave the way for some of the freed up spectrum to get earmarked for emergency services to use, but it's not like failing to render everyone's analog box completely useless is really going to endanger public safety.

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