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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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