[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.

[pgkdan]

This story is a load of crap.

[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.

[z3n]

If this is true, this is programming negligence.

I can tell you that even developers off apps and programs used at the consumer level exercise a lot more forethought and care. even something that can profit you needs to have a very deliberate interface... in fact, a lot of times you need to avoid having a customer claim you tricked them into a purchase, so after then initiate an action, either intentionally or by accident, you throw up a confirmation dialogue that is DIFFERENT than other dialogues a user would regularly interface with. Example: [in capital bold lettering- center screen- ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO INITIATE MISSILE WARNING? Hit yes to confirm.

[Sacajaweau]

I agree with you absolutely. You hire any useful idiot to be in charge of the button? Let's not be stupid. It was sabotage.

Not a clue as to nationality...Chinese? Korean?

[Paradox]

Unfortunately, it makes no sense what so ever that triggering an alert is that easy (too many failsafes in place)

I've worked for the government before, I totally believe it could have been shitty coding. There should be multiple screens with big fat warnings about what the operator was about to do... smh..

[Ol' Sox]

...it makes no sense what so ever that triggering an alert is that easy...

Years ago, we had a computer operator at our corporate data center who yawningly chose a 2 instead of a 1 on a menu and performed a full system restore, rather than a full system backup. For hours, he just mounted tapes as the system told him to. When folks arrived to work the next day, all hell broke loose and my team ended up spending the next 60 hours in the computer room putting everything back together as best we could.

[semaj]

I’d like to know if the text warning was accompanied by an air raid audio warning.

[353FMG]

why it took so long to catch said error and send out correction.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Combination of government incompetence and early nooners?

[Lopeover]

You shouldn’t.

The Hawaiian police knew it was a phony warning minutes after the warning was published. How come it took the Democrat-Communist leaders 37 minutes to retracted it? They wanted their residents to be terrified, to get angry at Trump.

Those Democrat-Communist leaders don’t care about their constituents, save how they can use them to push their agenda oppressive forward.

[zigmeisterxiv]

So I hear they reassigned that Miyagi characters nephew who pushed the button.

They put him in charge of Honolulu rail project.

(an inside joke for the kamaaina)

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