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

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 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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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Friday January 19 2018, @09:33PM

    by Bot (3902) on Friday January 19 2018, @09:33PM (#624923) Journal

    > One of JFK's aids
    Just in case the magic bullet failed to kill him. :)

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