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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/us/hawaii-missile.html Are the USA warning systems being checked like open ports? What happens if trump read this on twitter and believed it? I wonder how many people working for the gov woke up to these and thought it was real

Wow. Thing is, that was "real" as in it was the real alert; a mistake, not a hoax. I hate to think what would happen if there were actual missiles.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hawaii-missile-alert-fcc-launches-investigation-into-false-ballistic-missile-warning/ oh the FCC is looking into it. Now i feel safe.... What kind of "human error" could have caused this.

>>3668 i would call it >someone doing it for the lulz could be both a hacker or an employee >someone putting out the alert out of spite (like he was getting fired) more likely the employee >someone hacked the system like that time when zombie alerts were issued, since the alert chips are in everything

>>3669 Probably some 16 year old skid who just really wanted to get out of a math test and figured it would be easy enough to hack the alerts system to get out of it.

>>3670 The system is that vulnerable?

>>3671 I have no idea, I was just making a joke. If this incident really happened because someone accidentally sent out the alert instead of a test, then I bet that person could just as easily be tricked into opening a phishing email, though. There was a similar-ish hack a while ago where someone turned on all of Dallas's alarms: https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/08/us/dallas-alarm-hack/

>>3671 I never put any serious thought into it, even when ithad just happened, and people started immediatly asking 4chan for help (within 2 mintes of the alert going out) I fist suspected it was a troll, but after them proving the messages were authentic, I figured it was a misstype or a joke. The state confirmed that during a test they accidentally hit the wrong button. it was a 2 click process on a computer: >click here to alert people of imminent death >click here if you are sure you want to issue this alert that's how simple it was. In the past there have been proof-of-concepts that the system can be hacked, because people have issued zombie alerts and incited panic. this was just a fuarrrk up by some guy at a desk. the training on the software is not hard and takes a few hours to learn all of the tools (at least it took that for me) and then once you get access to the system, normally people don't give it the respect it deserves. unlike a nuclear launch button that has guards, chains of procedures and failsafes, this is literally a guy a a desk with a mouse.

>>3680 > people started immediatly asking 4chan for help See my reaction image? That's right, there is no suitable reaction face for something like this.

>>3681 I can see it now. >dubs decide the crime i commit during my last few minutes alive >my rich uncle died and left me his bomb shelter, roll trips and you get in >what anime should I watch during my last few minutes alive >chad and stacey are going to spend their last minutes alive having sex and i'm going to die in front of my computer I am angry >all of hawaii is about to go up in flames, how do i use this to get my sister to have sex with me?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-japan-north-korea-missile-alert-20180116-story.html >Japanese public broadcaster NHK mistakenly sent an alert Tuesday warning that North Korea had fired a missile, just days after a similar mistake caused panic in Hawaii. >Unlike in the Hawaii case, however, this error took only five minutes to correct. >"NHK news alert. North Korea appears to have launched a missile," NHK said in a notification sent through its app to mobile phone users at 6:55 p.m. Tokyo time. "The government J-alert urges people to take shelter inside buildings or underground."