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Los Alamos Security Infiltrated By Reporter
morcheeba writes "Wired reported Noah Shachtman gives a first-hand account of his entry into a high-security area at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Yes, there are pictures. It seems that the birthplace of the atom bomb is being guarded by string, backed up by guards with empty holsters. There's a little more info on Noah's Defense Tech website."
Sneaking onto the grounds on LANL is like saying its a feat to sneak across the US-Mexico border.
I wonder if he saw Gordon Freeman by any chance while he was there?
There is absolutely nothing to prevent anyone from just walking in and, *sniffle*, exploring and *wheeze*, doing whatever they *cough, hack, choke*, gawddamn, I feel like crap today. Better go have a lie down before I write the rest of this article. *glurgle*
Sadam Hussein has quit Iraq and is now providing his services to the US arms establishment as a consultant specializing in making defense laboratories bloody difficult to find.
All we need is a bunch of UN arms inspectors touring the US looking for nukes in the presidential palaces and such security issues will soon be fixed!
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Apparently, security at Los Alamos is run by the same folks who allowed the knife-weilding lunatic break into Prime Minister Chretien's home and threaten his wife for half an hour.
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...was when he said that the area he had gotten into was a big top-secret area "according to lab sources".
It turns out that my basement is actually a top-secret area for Los Alamos National Labs too. My sources from the lab told me so.
Anybody can come over and inspect the US weapons of mass destruction. We'll leave the light on for you, just let yourself in. If you want to phone in a report, there's a few pay phones over there.
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Hell the Chinese and Russians already know this stuff, and Bin Laden was trained by the US.
Its the FRENCH that this stuff is being protected from.
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green peace was doing this stuff in france recently. one on the stunts included inflating a gigantic Homer Simpson figure on the premises of the nuclear power plant. is it funny or scary?
They do, but who would report it?
Here is a tour of a 'top secret' nuclear missile silo from some people with too much time on their hands.
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...President Bush made an announcement that the staff at Wired were assisting terrorists in Iraq
Any security system is vulnerable. The best place to store sensitive documentation is in a pile of corporate memos about new document formatting guidelines, not in the safe. A thief will burn through the safe lock, and steal the contents and ignore the piles of junk on your desk, because only a fool would leave valuable things out when they had such an expensive safe. Likewise, the best way to protect national security assets is to build a really big base, surround it with armed guards, leak stories about alien tech being developed there and make it the centre of attention, while you do all you real research in an unmarked warehouse in Dullsville.
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"How is it that reporters never get nailed for criminal trespass?"
A precedent was established quite a few years ago when they failed to convict a well known reporter. Whenever witnesses went down the lineup, they were never able to positively I.D. Mr. Kent because he kept taking his glasses off.
It is, didn't you know that terrorists are being helped by aliens? It was the Al Quaeda sympathising aliens that shot down challenger with their anti-freedom-ray! The TA-33 is part of a long-term US government strategy to fight back against this new menace...
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That was great. What I was waiting for, though was:
You have moved into a dark place.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Hopefully they didn't test the Gamma Bomb, while he was there. Giant green reporters are the last thing we need.
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Wow, my cubicle is better guarded then this place. I'd like to see him get through my wall of empty coke cans!
It seems that the birthplace of the atom bomb is being guarded by string ...
... but it was *really good* string. Finest fiber ... the best money can buy. $45 a roll on the GSA schedule (MILSPEC costs bucks, ya know) ...
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The little guy just ain't getting it, is he?
One time on tv about half an hour before a broadcast advertising for the news. They said 'find out about a secret nuclear reactor, right in our own city!'
Then another commercial in the next break comes on. 'Watch as we show you a nuclear reactor, closer to your home than you probably think!' And it showed a picture of the nuclear engineering building at the local university. I burst into laughter. That reactor was hardly 'secret', it is a well advertised reactor, a very puny one. I toured it about 4 years ago....
Then the final commercial.... 'we'll show you our hidden camera investigation where our undercover reporter infiltrates security and gets into the reactor room!' And it showed a picture of something I could understand a layman mistaking for the reactor, but it certainly was not the reactor.
During the broadcast they made a big point of how they were able to see labs and classrooms, and then unveiled their 'killer' footage. The camera man, obviously excited, walks all around for a long time taking every possible shot he can of what *he* thought was a reactor, but it was just a cooling device not related to the reactor at all. About five minutes after the broadcast, they announce a correction, that they had learned that it wasn't a reactor, and that the place housing the reactor wasn't accessible, but still the thought this stuff was dangerous in the hands of terrorists because it said 'high voltage...'
The news always botches this stuff up. How many times have you seen news reports on a technology you are intimately familiar with and laughed your ass off at the inaccuracies?
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but a hell of a lot of crates....
good thing he brought a handy crowbar.....
Ah, yes. When Feynman demonstrated how easy it was to open safes without the combination, the higher-ups issued a new security directive: "Keep Feynman away from your safes!"
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80% of all militay base property is landscaping and wildlife areas. The other 10% is protected to the level of needed security. :)
And I think it's the remaining 10% that we need to worry about
"He wore it walking in and out as a joke with his coworkers. They, the guards, never even inquired about it. "
so the gaurds are supposed to be the fashion police?
jeez it was just a hat. do you think he should be stopped for wearing "Hammer and sickle" underwear?
now if he was talking into his sleeve in russian while hiding in a phone booth, you mightr have something.
the only way the hat would be of interest would be if he walked into a sensitive area and had a coworker take a picture.
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