A false alarm about a ballistic missile; a panic-stricken populace running for cover; the governor and the FCC chief dissing your agency’s lack of safeguards or process controls; and just to add a dash of ludicrous to the unsavory dish that is this week, a conspiracy theory about how these “accidental” missile alerts aren’t really accidents at all.

Wow. Could things possibly get any worse for the people over at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA)?

Why, yes! The worsitude comes in the flimsiest but all too familiar of forms: a yellow sticky note, spotted in an Associated Press photo from July, at the agency’s headquarters at Diamond Head, bearing a password and stuck to a computer screen. While there’s a press photographer in the room, obviously.

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