HONOLULU — The state of Hawaii on Thursday released an audio recording of the drill it was running in January when an employee mistakenly sent cellphone and broadcast alerts warning of a ballistic missile attack. But the 24-second recording the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency released was heavily redacted. It started with the words “exercise, exercise, exercise,” followed by a prolonged beep, then the phrase “this is not a drill” and another prolonged beep. “Somebody could use that verbiage to compose a message then call the state warning point and try to spoof state warning point into thinking there was a real missile alert,” Anthony said. It took the agency 38 minutes to send another cellphone and broadcast message notifying the public the alert was sent in error.

Source: National Post March 15, 2018 23:15 UTC