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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: 3, Interesting) by meustrus on Friday January 19 2018, @09:49PM (2 children)

    by meustrus (4961) on Friday January 19 2018, @09:49PM (#624935)

    They probably did one "better" and made it pop up for every option!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @12:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @12:59AM (#624992)

    We're doing high level UI design work here, would anyone like to start the SN Common Sense Consulting spinoff? SNCSC has a nice ring to it.

    If there is a pop-up for every option (seems likely...), then the Oh Shit option should have a flashing pop-up, and maybe the computer plays an air raid siren too. The button to stop the siren sound will de-select the Oh Shit option.

    As someone else noted, the person on this particular switch is not going to have much training.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @10:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @10:35PM (#625363)

    One piece of software I'm forced to use for work has a few places where after pressing Yes to "Are you sure?" it pops up another box and asks "Are you really sure?" with Yes/No/Cancel, and in one place, there's a third with "Are you really, really sure?"

    It's a great way to train users to just reflexively click Yes.