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> I think we all generally know what he did.

We all know stories about what appeared to or was claimed to have happened that reached the media through official and unofficial channels before any internal investigation.

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Hmmm, so you think it's possible that the UI was designed with the proper checks and the government officials in charge have decided not to correct the public narrative because...?

...Because "HEMA can’t publicize the actual screen because of security concerns — the system could then then be vulnerable to hackers"

http://www.civilbeat.org/2018/01/hawaii-distributed-phony-im...

(Quite a load of BS, that statement.)

My adblocker makes that page show nothing. Your article is perhaps related:

http://www.businessinsider.com/hawaii-emergency-agency-passw...

I think its quite likely there are system design, procedural, and other problems with both how the alert happened and how it remained uncorrected for as long as it did that have not been revealed yet; the reasons they haven't been probably involves a mixture of people not interested in exposing their own failings (and those people certainly have an incentive not to correct the public narrative) and even the involved people not individually being aware of the whole picture and no one having yet put all the pieces together.

I suspect that the picture of the UI problem that has become public is likely accurate as far as it goes, but is also far from a complete picture.

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