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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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...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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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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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.
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.
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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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
Scary...
Because the French are dumb enough to mistake it for a campaign poster and vote for him...
Or so it would seem from their recent behaviour regarding Saddam.