This message made some people nervous. One asked, “Should we be ducking and covering now?”
A coded alert? A hacker? Nope.
“In a statement issued late Monday, StratCom said the person who manages the command’s Twitter account was working from home when he briefly stepped away from his computer while the account was open. That’s when his child sat down to play on the keyboard and managed to hit ‘send.’ Read story here.
The kid is now known as “the Defcon toddler.”
Personally, I don’t think ducking and covering does all that much good in a real alert, if you’re inside the blast zone. Maybe if you’re 20 miles away.