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A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It Note
« on: January 17, 2018, 09:45:39 pm »
A false alert warning of an inbound missile was broadcast in Hawaii on Saturday.

Since then, people have discovered that a photo taken in Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency for a news article in July includes a sticky note with a password.

Hawaii says the alert was sent was because "an employee pushed the wrong button," not because of a hack, but the photo has sparked criticism about the agency's level of security.

On Saturday, people in Hawaii were awakened by a terrifying false alert about an inbound missile. Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency has said a worker clicked the wrong item in a drop-down menu and sent it, and that its system was not hacked.

"It was a mistake made during a standard procedure at the changeover of a shift, and an employee pushed the wrong button," Gov. David Ige said.

But an Associated Press photo from July that recently resurfaced on Twitter has raised questions about the agency's cybersecurity practices.

In it, the agency's operations officer poses in front of a battery of screens. Attached to one is a password written on a Post-it note.





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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2018, 10:00:49 pm »
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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2018, 10:04:43 pm »
Hackers were able to crack the sophisticated firewall protection by guessing the access code was T1ny8ubbl3Z.
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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2018, 10:04:55 pm »
Hawaii says the alert was sent was because "an employee pushed the wrong button,"

I have to go through 4 prompts before I can delete shit out of my phone or computer, but these clowns can just push a panic button without any problems? I call bullshit.
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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2018, 10:05:57 pm »
Never trust anyone with vomit on their shirts.

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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2018, 10:07:53 pm »
Well, why not?

All my secret info is posted all around the house and places I work on sticky notes.......    *****rollingeyes*****
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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2018, 10:11:12 pm »
How absurd. Everyone knows passwords are to be kept taped to the slide-out shelf on an office desk, or in the top drawer in the right front quadrant.
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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2018, 10:11:33 pm »
Amateurs.  Everyone knows your password sticky note goes under the keyboard.
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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2018, 10:12:14 pm »
Quote from: roamer_1 on January 17, 2018, 10:11:12 pm
How absurd. Everyone knows passwords are to be kept taped to the slide-out shelf on an office desk, or in the top drawer in the right front quadrant.

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LOL, ok, those are acceptable alternatives.
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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2018, 10:15:31 pm »
Quote from: edpc on January 17, 2018, 10:04:43 pm
Hackers were able to crack the sophisticated firewall protection by guessing the access code was T1ny8ubbl3Z.

Did you know Don Ho can sign autographs 3.4 times faster than Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2018, 10:15:48 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on January 17, 2018, 10:04:55 pm
Hawaii says the alert was sent was because "an employee pushed the wrong button,"

I have to go through 4 prompts before I can delete shit out of my phone or computer, but these clowns can just push a panic button without any problems? I call bullshit.

They are government workers. That is 4 prompts too many...
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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2018, 10:16:53 pm »



The password is........
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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2018, 10:17:59 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on January 17, 2018, 10:15:31 pm
Did you know Don Ho can sign autographs 3.4 times faster than Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Is that because of Efrem's disability........that he's dead?
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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #14 on: January 17, 2018, 10:19:38 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on January 17, 2018, 10:17:59 pm
Is that because of Efrem's disability........that he's dead?

Someone better tell him before he votes again.
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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2018, 10:20:15 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on January 17, 2018, 10:04:55 pm
Hawaii says the alert was sent was because "an employee pushed the wrong button,"

I have to go through 4 prompts before I can delete shit out of my phone or computer, but these clowns can just push a panic button without any problems? I call bullshit.
Or just narmal government incompetence.
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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #16 on: January 17, 2018, 10:22:12 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on January 17, 2018, 10:15:31 pm
Did you know Don Ho can sign autographs 3.4 times faster than Efrem Zimbalist Jr.


Engelbert Humperdinck said Efrem had a stupid stage name.
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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2018, 10:33:36 pm »
Quote from: edpc on January 17, 2018, 10:22:12 pm

Engelbert Humperdinck said Efrem had a stupid stage name.

Then a moniker like say, Arnold George Dorsey, must have really set him off!   lol
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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2018, 10:36:23 pm »
Quote from: Polly Ticks on January 17, 2018, 10:12:14 pm
@roamer_1
LOL, ok, those are acceptable alternatives.

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LOL! I have seen the under-the-keyboard trick plenty too - though usually masking tape and sharpie, as sticky notes don't survive there.

For anyone looking for a better way:

https://keepass.info/

Make a folder somewhere in your docs (or someplace else that will be included in your backup routine)
Drop the KeyPass executable in that folder, rclick it, and 'Send to => Desktop/Create Shortcut.
Then load the created encrypted database with all your passwords. The database will be created in the folder you put the executable in)

In normal operation, the password is never revealed - even when the KeyPass application is open - You have a timed opportunity to copy'paste the password. Works good, and is a pretty good way to keep passwords both handy and protected.
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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2018, 10:41:07 pm »
Quote from: roamer_1 on January 17, 2018, 10:36:23 pm
@Polly Ticks
LOL! I have seen the under-the-keyboard trick plenty too - though usually masking tape and sharpie, as sticky notes don't survive there.

For anyone looking for a better way:

https://keepass.info/

Make a folder somewhere in your docs (or someplace else that will be included in your backup routine)
Drop the KeyPass executable in that folder, rclick it, and 'Send to => Desktop/Create Shortcut.
Then load the created encrypted database with all your passwords. The database will be created in the folder you put the executable in)

In normal operation, the password is never revealed - even when the KeyPass application is open - You have a timed opportunity to copy'paste the password. Works good, and is a pretty good way to keep passwords both handy and protected.

THANKS!

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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2018, 10:48:51 pm »
Quote from: edpc on January 17, 2018, 10:22:12 pm

Engelbert Humperdinck said Efrem had a stupid stage name.

Yahoo Seriously?
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« Reply #23 on: January 18, 2018, 12:34:22 am »
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Would it also qualify as an amber alert for all the people that wet their pants?
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Re: A Password For The Hawaii Emergency Agency Was Hiding In A Public Photo, Written On A Post-It No
« Reply #24 on: January 18, 2018, 12:37:51 am »
Now that gif is funny I don't care if you are the Gov Of Hiawatha.... er Hawaii
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