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After a false alert about an inbound missile, Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency has said a worker clicked the wrong item in a drop-down menu and sent it, and that its system was not hacked. But Hawaii News Now is reporting an AP photo from July has resurfaced, showing the agency's operations officer in front of monitors, attached to one of them is a Post-it note with a password on it.
Just.... wow. I'm nearly at a loss for words on how big of a screw up this is. And from the response of the spokesman sounds like this was a shared password, therefore no way to link it to a specific careless employee.
Richard Rapoza, emergency management agency spokesman, confirmed that the password is authentic and was actually used for an "internal application." He said he didn't believe that application is any longer in use, but declined to say what application the password was for.
Source: https://www.hardocp.com/news/2018/01/17/hawaii_emergency_management_password_found_in_press_photo/
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday January 19 2018, @03:35PM (3 children)
Ok, after the false alarm due to obviously horrible UI, and now this, they just need to fire everyone in the place and start over. Maybe a few of the low-level people who've complained for ages about how bad the management is, but their complaints fell on deaf ears, can be kept around (and perhaps promoted to manage things); all the upper-level people need to be canned and given terrible references if they try to get any more management jobs.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @03:54PM
I want this policy to be implemented at all workplaces, and am looking forward to the resulting 99.8% unemployment rate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @07:36PM (1 child)
These are civil servants we're talking about.
To fire any civil servant, said employee must at least be guilty of driving a school bus full of disabled minority kids into a burning church full of lesbian activist nuns. And even this is subject to union arbitration.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday January 20 2018, @06:45AM
You see, the church was already burning. The lesbian activist nuns had to be saved from the fire, and how to better do that than with a bus? And no, getting the disabled minority kids out of the bus first would have taken too much time.
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