Washington:
Some jokingly mentioned the cryptic tweet, “;l;;gmlxzssaw,” was a US nuclear launch code. Others, that the Pentagon had been hacked.
And some even believed it was a signal to political conspiracists.
Now the US Strategic Command, which runs the country’s potent nuclear weapons force, says the enigmatic posting on its Twitter account in reality came from the hands of a precocious kid.
Headquartered in Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, Stratcom manages the US military’s strategic deterrence — that is, the enormous nuclear weapons force and missile defenses that are made to discourage any attack against the nation by other powers.
So its media comments are closely watched for indicators of any adjust in its present defense stance.
But Stratcom told reporter Mikael Thalen of the Daily Dot that the tweet was no secret message, and was rather was the outcome of a Stratcom social media editor working from residence.
“The Command’s Twitter manager, while in a telework status, momentarily left the Command’s Twitter account open and unattended. His very young child took advantage of the situation and started playing with the keys and, unfortunately, and unknowingly, posted the tweet,” Stratcom official Kendall Cooper mentioned in a letter Thalen posted on line.
“Absolutely nothing nefarious occurred, i.e. no hacking of our Twitter account.”
Thirty minutes later Stratcom tweeted to disregard the prior tweet, and then each of these messages have been deleted.
It is not the very first time Stratcom has run into problems on social media.
In December 2018, referring to the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball-drop in New York, it joked on Twitter about it getting ready to drop some thing “much bigger,” with a video of a B-2 stealth bomber dropping two bombs to the beat of pulsing music.
Hours later it deleted that tweet and apologized that it was “in poor taste.”
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