Hawiian Log-In

From the BBC:

"Hawaii missile alert standdown delayed by forgotten log-in"

Forgotten Twitter log-in details have been blamed for delaying a public correction to Hawaii's missile alert earlier this month. Governor David Ige was told two minutes after a text message was issued by the Emergency Management Agency (EMA) that the threat warning was a false alarm. But his office did not share the information via social media until about 17 minutes later. On Monday, Mr Ige acknowledged he had failed to recall his social media ID. "I have to confess that I don't know my Twitter account log-ons and the passwords, so certainly that's one of the changes that I've made," he said after his State of the State address, according to local newspaper the Honolulu Star Advertiser. The governor added that he now stored the details on his smartphone to avoid a repeat blunder.  After the Twitter correction was eventually posted, Mr Ige's office took several more minutes to post a similar retraction on his Facebook page.  However, the governor did not mention whether he and his team had also struggled to access the page. The EMA's mass text alert message was sent out to all local residents on 13 January. It took the agency more than half an hour to issue its own retraction to the public, in the form of a second text alert. In the intervening period, many residents had believed that they faced a nuclear missile threat from North Korea.  Mr Ige has stressed that steps have now been taken to ensure there will be no repeat of the incident.  

^  Wow!!! The Hawaiian Missile Saga continues. At every step we go we learn just how inapt the Government officials in Hawaii truly are. Not only could they not prevent a false missile alert, but they couldn't even use their Twitter account. Even a 10 year old can do that. Besides, if you can't use your Twitter account or any other Social Media account then why not use the TV, the Radio, the Telephone, etc. to tell people that it was a mistake before the 30+ minute alarm ended? If I ever decided to go to Hawaii I would do so knowing that if anything happened (missile attack, earthquake, hurricane, volcanic eruption, etc.) I would definitely not trust the State Government to alert me or help me. They have proven they can't. ^

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42787419