Hawaii missile alert: How one employee ‘pushed the wrong button’ and caused a wave of panic

Washington Post ^ | 01/15/2018 | Amy B. Wang

[jimjohn]

This story is based on the press release from the HI Gov’s office.

Unfortunately, it makes no sense what so ever that triggering an alert is that easy (too many failsafes in place), or why it took so long to catch said error and send out correction.

[redgolum]

Not sure I buy the story.

[Spok]

Why did it take 38 minutes to correct? How long did it take the button pusher to realize what he’d done?

[Paulie]

It was an employee of the HEM?

No way! It was Trump’s fault.

Surprised the Compost wrote this at all. Whassup with that?

[pgkdan]

This story is a load of crap.

[Buckeye McFrog]

This has happened before.

https://seanmunger.com/2014/02/20/we-interrupt-this-program-the-terrifying-ebs-false-alarm-of-1971/

And in my lifetime, which does not yet qualify as ancient history.

[gunnyg]

BS!

I go w/Eric Peters last article, and the one on FEAR is intended!

[Vaquero]

Sounds like it was planned so as to trash Trump over his foreign policies.

Sick liberal solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.

[lerker]

link to article? thanks

[conservative98]

But Jamie Lee Curtis said Trump did it.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Hawaii is completely under the control of Democrats - how will they account for this case of gross incompetence on the state level?

[dirtboy]

Around 8:05 a.m., the Hawaii emergency employee initiated the internal test, according to a timeline released by the state. From a drop-down menu on a computer program, he saw two options: “Test missile alert” and “Missile alert.” He was supposed to choose the former; as much of the world now knows, he chose the latter, an initiation of a real-life missile alert.

Looks like a single point of failure - not double or triple check that the user really, really wanted to do that. Poor system design, but that happens all the time on government systems.

[dfwgator]

The 1971 EBS False Alarm

WOWO Ft. Wayne EBS False Alarm: February 20,1971

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu4r79l8P8I

[Bob]

As annoying as “Are you sure?” prompts are, they do serve a purpose.

[dfwgator]

As annoying as “Are you sure?” prompts are, they do serve a purpose.

[Lopeover]

Breitbart reported that Hawaii Police knew 30 seconds after broadcast.

[left that other site]

Was it Caused by...

some commie prevert trying to destroy our purity of essence and messing with our precious bodily fluids?

Because that would make about the same amount of sense as the story they are giving us.

[gunnyg]

sorry, cnnot do THAT!
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[Newbomb Turk]

This false alarm wasn't all for naught. People can now consider what they would really do and make a plan. Buy new sunglasses and good Whisky because that's about all you can do. Make your peace with the lord.

Voting in strong Republicans would be a start at heading off North Korea too.