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