Tuesday, January 16, 2018

How That False Alarm Happened


Saturday morning, residents of Hawaii received an alert of incoming missiles, with a tag that "this is not a drill." Panic ensued, and it was 38 minutes before the news followed that it was a false alarm. How did it happen? The explanation was that an employee pushed the wrong button. There is speculation that it was an option in a drop-down menu. The video above is an easy explanation, because it's happened to all of us. (via reddit)


1 comment:

Spellucci said...

Here is a link to the actual screen https://twitter.com/CivilBeat/status/953127542050795520