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[H]ardOCP: Hawaii Emergency Management Password Found In Press Photo

posted by Fnord666 on Friday January 19 2018, @03:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the note-to-self dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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/

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday January 19 2018, @08:16PM (3 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Friday January 19 2018, @08:16PM (#624874) Homepage Journal

    The clearance type you need for Signals Intelligence is itself classified.

    One of JFK's aids must have had a lobotomy because he stood next to the President at a news conference, with a document partially showing from his handbag.

    That document was stamped TOP SECRET ULTRA.

    Congress swiftly met in private to ban the use of TOP SECRET ULTRA and then create a new Signals Intelligence classification.

    Some time later someone of high rank at the NSA dropped a dime to that insightful Presidential aid so he could tell the aid that his inadvertant mistake set The American Taxpayers back a quarter million dollars.

    For what?

    New rubber stamps.

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Friday January 19 2018, @09:30PM (2 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Friday January 19 2018, @09:30PM (#624920) Journal

    wow a quarter million dollars, in JFK age?
    that must have been like 20 or 30 rubber stamps for the Army, but surely the Secret service had more complex requirements.

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