Reporter walks in "secure" Los Alamos National Lab.

[Martin]

http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,57792,00.html

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico -- There are no armed guards to knock out. No sensors to deactivate. No surveillance cameras to cripple. To sneak into Los Alamos National Laboratory, the world's most important nuclear research facility, all you do is step over a few strands of rusted, calf-high barbed wire.

I should know. On Saturday morning, I slipped into and out of a top-secret area of the lab while guards sat, unaware, less than a hundred yards away.

Despite the nation's heightened terror alert status, despite looming congressional hearings into the lab's mismanagement and slack-jawed security, an untrained person -- armed with only the vaguest sense of the facility's layout and slowed by a torn Achilles tendon -- was able to repeatedly gain access to the birthplace of the atom bomb.
"While Los Alamos is praised as a jewel of homeland security, it may actually be one of the country's biggest vulnerabilities," said Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, a watchdog organization that's eyed Los Alamos for years.

 

[Fencer128]

And did he manage to actually get near/into a builiding. I don't think so.

top-secret area of the lab

Yeah, right.

You can walk into area 51. You'll probably be shot - but you can get into area 51 if you really want to.

Andy

 

[EvilYoda]

Originally posted by: Fencer128
And did he manage to actually get near/into a builiding. I don't think so.

top-secret area of the lab

Yeah, right.

You can walk into area 51. You'll probably be shot - but you can get into area 51 if you really want to.

Andy

Oh really, can I!? I wanna get shot! 😀 😉

 

[Spyro]

You should read some of the (mod 5) comments at Slashdot they're surprisingly insightful about this whole thing.

 

[Martin]

Originally posted by: wizardLRU
You should read some of the (mod 5) comments at Slashdot they're surprisingly insightful about this whole thing.

I didn't read those, but thanks. They're quite interesting.

 

[SpiderX]

Well it was nice of him to let the terrorists know that it's easy to get in.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: SpiderX
Well it was nice of him to let the terrorists know that it's easy to get in.

If terrorists get in easily it's the government's fault. Not his. He's doing them a favor.

 

[notfred]

heh, he walked 6 feet onto the edge of government property in the middle of the fricking dessert, it's not like he was anywhere near an actual laboratory.

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: notfred
heh, he walked 6 feet onto the edge of government property in the middle of the fricking dessert, it's not like he was anywhere near an actual laboratory.

Thanks for pointing this out. I think a lot of people here missed that point.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

haha see the picture of that "super dupper top secret" shack? It would take a real moron to believe there was any top secret stuff still going on in that building.

 

[ViperXX]

heh, he walked 6 feet onto the edge of government property in the middle of the fricking dessert, it's not like he was anywhere near an actual laboratory.

Just to clear things up. Los Alamos is not in the desert it's in the mountains.

 

[glenn1]

What a dumbf*ck. If he'd been in an area where anything sensitive was, he'd have been shot on sight. Let him try that same stunt even near a secure site like Area 5 on Nevada Test Site or Groom Lake. That the sign saying "explosives, keep out" wasn't enough to deter him from walking onto an impact area then he deserves his Darwin.

 

[tweakmm]

There are these crazy things called building security and perimeter security :Q