A Photo Accidentally Revealed a Password For Hawaii's Emergency Agency (qz.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: In the aftermath of an erroneous missile warning that terrified Hawaiians on Saturday (Jan. 13), the state's emergency management agency has come under increased scrutiny, from the poor design of the software that enables alerts to a particularly slapdash security measure by one of its employees. Old photos from the Associated Press inside the agency's office appear to show an unspecified password on a yellow Post-It note, stuck to a computer monitor. The image, which shows operations manger Jeffrey Wong standing in front of the computer, was taken in July and appeared in articles published at the time about the agency's preparedness in the face of a nuclear threat. The agency verified that the password is indeed real but wouldn't go into specifics on what program the password was supposed to be used for.

Comments

Really bad security

[nospam007]

"yellow Post-It note, stuck to a computer monitor."

Everybody knows real security can only be had by posting it under the keyboard, where nobody can photograph it.
Duh!

That leads us to a fundamental question

[geantvert]

Where can I buy Post-It with pre-printed passwords? That would save me so much time.

It's changed now, so don't bother trying it.

[kimgkimg]

The password's been changed to "Warmingpoint3" now, so don't bother trying the old one, it won't work.