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August 30, 2006

Lockheed Martin engineer uses YouTube to expose flaws

danger @ 1:28 am

Crazy story found via boing boing.

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.

Here’s the video:


The text above is from the Washington Post article on it.

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