Cause of false Hawaii missile alert -- hit phones, social media, and emergency broadcast system

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Cause of false Hawaii missile alert -- hit phones, social media, and emergency broadcast system
> Date: January 13, 2018 at 3:03:43 PM EST
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
>
>
> Cause of false Hawaii missile alert -- hit phones, social media, and emergency broadcast system
>
> Officials are saying -- get this! -- that the cause of the false alarm
> *** which said it was "not a drill" *** and took them about 40 minutes
> to update as false -- was that "somebody pushed the wrong button
> during a shift change." 
>
> *PUSHED THE WRONG BUTTON?*
>
> You can excuse the good people of Hawaii if they consider all future
> alerts on that system with an extreme degree of skepticism.
>
> Any system that permits an error like this needs to be ripped out by
> the roots and tossed into a dumpster, along with whomever is in charge
> of it.




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