YouTube Used for Whistleblowing

fightmaster writes "A Lockheed Martin engineer with concerns about the safety and security flaws in a fleet of refurbished Coast Guard patrol boats turned to YouTube in order to publicize concerns he felt were being ignored by his employer and the government. From the article: 'The 41-year-old Lockheed Martin engineer had complained to his bosses. He had told his story to government investigators. He had called congressmen. But when no one seemed to be stepping up to correct what he saw as critical security flaws in a fleet of refurbished Coast Guard patrol boats, De Kort did just about the only thing left he could think of to get action: He made a video and posted it on YouTube.com.'"

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Lockheed Martin is an inferior company

[voice_of_fate]

The news is no surprise. Lockheed Martin is known to be an inferior company producing largely inferior products, excepting the engine and some other parts produced by superior British manufacturers such as Rolls-Royce PLC. If the company wants to make real advances, it should hire all British workers and make LMUK its primary headquarters. It is the only way to stop dangerous mistakes like this being made.

Personally, I realize it is a mistake to allow those in the so-called "United States" to manufacture or hold any kind of device that could be used as a weapon or in war. The consequence of allowing rogue colonists such tools were revealed to the British in 1776. That is a mistake we shall not repeat. Next time we cross the Atlantic, it shall be as Henry V took Agincourt: outnumbered but fitted with superior tools and men. Once more unto the breach, dear friends.

what's more:

[SmellMyTeenSpirit]

" If the employer AND the government AND the congressman AND apparently no one else will listen to this boob, maybe, just maybe, his issue ain't that important and he should quit bellyaching.

Does this also apply to engineers of electronic voting systems?"

Who the hell says that two heads are better than one?

Don't the heads have to COMMUNICATE and SHARE THE SAME GOALS for that to be true?

Otherwise you're a schizophrenic hydra.

In my "humble opinion".