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Half the country thought Trump would start WW3. Turns out that the iPhone was almost the culprit today...
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Holy cow. This came over TV as well. This had to be utterly terrifying.
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01-13-2018, 01:38 PM | #3 |
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Pretty damn scary.
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01-13-2018, 01:45 PM | #4 |
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I just hit play twice and it gets past the error message.
If you can't get past it, it's the standard emergency message long beep sound, then the standard computerized voice saying stuff like "missile impact within minutes", "this is not a drill", "if you are outside, get inside and stay away from windows", "take immediate action measures", "if you are driving go get inside a building", and so forth
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hxxps://youtu.be/5X-x5KtE9mg
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Here's a link that shows what it looked like on local ABC, NBC, and CBS broadcasts:
Attention Required! | Cloudflare
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The Hawaii governor is saying that a wrong button was pushed during a shift change.
But imagine the confusion if North Korea actually sent a missile right now.
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I prefer to believe that the threat was real and Five-Oh saved us.
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01-13-2018, 02:19 PM | #10 |
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That is fucked up.
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01-13-2018, 02:26 PM | #11 |
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wow that would have been scary to see that from the emergency broadcast system.
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or any time soon at all. Or if there’s an earthquake/tsunami. Not good to erode confidence in that system.
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This happened on a somewhat lesser scale to me a couple of years back: driving to London my Audi Satnav came up with a message saying there were major delays on my route due to an Air Raid! Exact same reason - someone punched the wrong code into the report. I was listening to my iPod at the time, and it did make me switch to the radio just to check! Can only imagine how scary it would be if there was a baackground that made a false alarm plausible
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Certainly relieved that it was innocent (?) human error, but if three months later some reporter comes out with "what really happened with the Hawaii ballistic missile attack", I may just cry.
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01-13-2018, 02:42 PM | #15 |
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Meanwhile Donald Trump was playing golf.
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That's probably for the best.
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01-13-2018, 03:06 PM | #18 |
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This isn't exactly new ground. Check the "Incidents" portion of the Wiki. On average, about once a year ever since the current system was put in place. To varying degrees (and with a couple of different causes) but this isn't groundbreaking stuff.
Emergency Alert System - Wikipedia
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Shimon Prokupecz on Twitter: ""It was a mistake made during a standard procedure at the change over of a shift and an employee pushed the wrong button," Governor of Hawai… https://t.co/mieGT70oQa"
I’m no expert on warning system protocol, but what kinda stupid setup keeps the “shift change” button next to the “ZOMFG INCOMING MISSILE ALERT” button???
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01-13-2018, 03:31 PM | #21 |
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Whats that movie from?
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Having to ask that question is dang near cause for a banning 'round these parts.
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Windows asks me if I'm sure before it will let me delete a file from my desktop. It's almost fool-proof. I'm no Emergency Broadcast System genius, but I'd recommend something like that.
Of course, I'm not sure if the Emergency Broadcast System is actually operated by computers, it sounds like they're still using physical buttons, 1970s' sci-fi movie style. Last edited by molson : 01-13-2018 at 04:18 PM. |
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Have a friend that is currently on vacation there. He was scratching his head a few minutes ago seeing both messages.
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Darn, how old is that movie! FWIW, even though I think the person(s) responsible for the mistake should be disciplined severely, it ultimately will help people take basic preparation more seriously, get families to talk about the what-ifs etc. Definitely screwed if you are in the middle of the blast, but there is a X miles away where your odds of survival increases with some prep and knowledge. |
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So the problem was caused by a guy selecting "missile alert" from a drop down menu instead of "test missile alert".
How wonder how much he gets paid.
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That was my thought. How are these next to one another in the UI?
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Chances are the simulation for testing the missile alert drill is nearly identical to the actual real one apart from one step ... that is fairly sensible as it needs to follow it to ensure that they're doing things right ... as such it sounds like whatever 'selection' was meant to mean its a 'test' wasn't set correctly ... but I could see how it could happen. (Personally I'd have thought they'd have run these tests wholly 'offline' - ie. take down your SMS messaging connections etc. before running them to avoid risking this sort of thing, but I understand that could be problematic - after all what happens is the real thing happened mid-test?) |
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The person responsible for all this has been "reassigned" to something that doesn't scare all of Hawaii.
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Figured maybe a picture of a graph would be more appropriate.
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Hawaii governor didn't correct false missile alert sooner because he didn't know his Twitter password
Your government at work everyone!
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The guy thought it was for real. Nevertheless taking 30+ min to correct it is unforgivable.
Also, how come this just came out? Worker Who Sent False Hawaii Alert Thought Threat Was Real, F.C.C. Says - The New York Times Quote:
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Here's a funny what if op-ed.
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If it was right now, me working from home about 25 miles North from downtown Atlanta, wife and daughter at school (about 2 miles away), don't think 15 min is enough to do much other than call/text them and son (in college) and tell them I love them, goodbye and try stay indoors if they survive the blast. If everyone was home for the holidays, I would grab a bunch of water & snacks and get them all down to the basement. The basement windows and door is facing North so away from the blast. Probably start praying alot. Last edited by Edward64 : 01-30-2018 at 12:53 PM. |
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My guess is this story will change again a few more times in the future and at some point we will get the real story. Of course I am holding out hope for the real Flight 93 story as well. |
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I feel sorry for the guy, sounds like there was no malicious intent just incompetence. Again, why did it take so long?
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"The employee "had a history of confusing drill and real-world events," Oliveira said."
Seems like it's more than the employee that should be fired here |
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Hawaii false alarm worker: I was 100% sure it was real - BBC News
While not absolving the employee, even if preceded by ‘Exercise! Exercise! Exercise!’ why in the hell have the words ‘This is not a drill’ in a test? Just asking for confusion
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