Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, Officials Say

Re:Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, O... by nodesocket on Saturday January 13, 2018 @04:31PM (#16141525)

Kudos. That is how you manage. However my concern is that it took over 30 minutes to send another message stating it was false. Seems like they should have been able to spot their mistake almost instantly.

As I commented below, if this happened when the stock market was open, this could have had a huge impact financially. Over 30 minutes with no updates is an eternity for news to hit Wall Street and algo trades start kicking in.

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Re:Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, O... by roywiggins on Saturday January 13, 2018 @05:35PM (#16141787)

It could be that there were no "oopsie" messages coded into the system and they didn't have an easy way to send a newly written message out. If it's designed to be used with canned messages, it might take some time to work out how to put a new one in...

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Re:Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, O... by ithkuil on Sunday January 14, 2018 @03:49PM (#16146323)

Or you just don't rush and ensure your mitigation doesn't make things even worse

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