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Cause of false Hawaii missile alert -- hit phones, social media, and emergency broadcast system
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 15:15:36 -0500
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. --Lauren--
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