Hawaii fires employee who sent false ballistic missile alert

Re:Hawaii fires employee who sent false ballistic missile alert by prepend on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @06:49PM (#16270187)

How do you repeatedly mistake a drill for real-life? The source was unclear whether this person had a mental break (weird but understandable) or s/he actually had some source saying a missile was inbound. The latter would be so interesting as to what convinced the person of the missile.

This explains why the button pusher wouldn’t cooperate with the investigation.

Also good to see that responsible managers were also canned / disciplined.

Can’t wait for the bunch of articles talking about UX wasn’t the problem and there’s no correcting for insane users.

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Re:Hawaii fires employee who sent false ballistic missile alert by moioci on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @09:23PM (#16270827)

The FCC report said that the message that was played as part of a drill said something like, "Exercise Exercise Exercise [Missile inbound message] This is not a drill. Exercise Exercise Exercise." So it was contradictory. But everyone else figured it out.

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Re:Hawaii fires employee who sent false ballistic missile alert by aaronbrethorst on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @06:53PM (#16270207)

A good Ux will correct for users with mental issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-man_rule

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