3,807 O'Hare Access Badges Missing
All the money spent and we still can't get our airport security straightened out.
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O'Hare is one of the busiest airports in the nation, and may be one of the most vulnerable. The 2 Investigators have learned that 47 more employee access badges are missing, bringing the total we've discovered to 3,807 – the biggest security failure involving access badges ever to be exposed. |
3,807 badges that grant access to various restricted parts of the airport. Reading the story, you can definitely imagine bitter ex-employees selling their access badges or just "losing" them to make their former employer look bad. There had to be accountability, for security, the airlines and the employees.
The article focuses on the account of Marcia Pinkston, a former employee of Mesa Airlines whose access badges recently went missing. What the article doesn't explain is how her badge went missing after it was in her possession. The airline never asked her for her badge so what did she do with it? The article paints her as the whistle-blower, but isn't she responsible as well? I'm hoping they just left this info out but I wouldn't count on it.
Via Drudge
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This is Marcia and I handed all my badges into my supervisor and she handed me that one back. It wasn't until I say the chanel 2 news report that I realized that they were to take that one as well. It wasn't until OSHA told me that it was to be turned in and off by the company within 3 days of me being fired. It was shut off by Dave Savini 140 days later. What I whistle blew on was my activation code was not turned on and they were having me by pass security by piggybacking, which I did not know was illegal....against homeland secutiy rules because my supervisor told us to do this, we did not question them. When I got locked in Ohare at 11pm on a Friday night because no one was coming or going, that is when I began to question them. I was then fired one week after being locked in and two days after I insisted that the code be activated by my company.
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November 3, 2007 02:33 PM
Than you for taking the time to explain the situation, Marcia. You can understand, from reading the article, that the sequence of when badges went missing was not clear.
If you would like to shed some more light on the security (or lack thereof) situation at our airports, I would be happy to devote time to it.
Best,
Ed
Posted by: Ed Z | November 3, 2007 04:18 PM