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Jewel
May 2, 2009

vOv posted:

i assume the full e-mail has a link to paypal.com.totallynotascam.com or something, but it is possible paypal hosed it up

yes. there's a link down below that takes you to shady website. they spoofed the sender address

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Jewel
May 2, 2009

https://twitter.com/PeterNHess/status/947612630499422214

Jewel
May 2, 2009

cant find the tweet rn but someone who used to work in the government that is responsible for "the button" tweeted a thread about how it's absolutely impossible to absolutely trigger and it was 100% a hack or a false alarm from even higher up

Jewel
May 2, 2009

pseudorandom name posted:

thank you for badly recalling the words of some twitter rando

here, jfc https://taskandpurpose.com/emergency-alert-system-hawaii-false-alarm/

quote:

The governor of Hawaii claims that during a shift change, an operator simply hit the wrong button. Well, it doesn’t exactly work that way. These alerts are not actuated by physically pushed buttons because the number of buttons that would require, for all of the different types of alerts, would be unwieldy. An operator would either type in the desired alert (or select from canned messages), select which communications mediums they’d like to use and the populations they’d like to alert, and then hit “send” and then again confirm that they really want to send that message. The canned messages might be available as electronically selectable on a computer screen (like a Windows button) but a “confirm” dialogue would still be required.

Time will tell what really happened, but as a Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) who helped set up the Mass Notification System for a major military base, I know that what likely occurred was a serious breach in procedure at Hawaii EMA

Jewel
May 2, 2009

.. :)

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/24/congress-asks-apple-intel-others-about-spectre-disclosure-delays.html



Taviso is excited. This'll be fun.

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Jewel
May 2, 2009

:allears:

https://twitter.com/fs0c131y/status/956628910308982785

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