From the Cookie Monster cat to ballistic missiles: when text and email alerts go wrong

The US embassy in Australia spammed recipients with a picture of a cat this week – but that’s nothing compared with other recent message failsThe US embassy in Canberra, Australia, sent out an email invitation this week to untold numbers of recipients, in Latin, with a picture of a cat holding biscuits in a turquoise Cookie Monster onesie. It was, of course, an error, though not one I can see any reasonable person being truly irked by. It also wasn’t the first of its kind. In 2