CNN.com - Airline employees intentionally breach security - September 14, 2001

[John Starta]

Channel 3 interviewed one of the people involved early this moring (~5:30) 
and he indicated that what was reported in the AP story below wasn't an 
accurate account. Needless to say, I concur with Gary albeit for slight 
different reasons.

jas

At 07:53 AM 9/14/01 -0700, Gary Nichols wrote:
>I'm glad this happened - because it proves a point I made in a
>discussion with friends the other day.  Airports on the west (with the
>exception of LAX, they are ultra-paranoid right now) need a wakeup
>call.  Phoenix is the 6th largest city in the Nation -- sounds like a
>pretty good terrorist target to me.
>
>We performed breaches on secure locations in the military quite
>routinely.  I'm happy to say that the majority of the time we were
>unsuccessful.
>
>Of course, [airport security guards <> military police ].  *g*
>
>~ Gary
>
>On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 22:52, Eric wrote:
> > sorry for this being off-topic, but this is relevant to the "P" in "PLUG"
> > and simply stupid, pathetic, and scary.
> >
> >  http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/14/airport.securitybreach.ap/