“Trashy Security”
April 18th, 2008Yeah, this is an embarrassment.
It’s a good thing Osama wasn’t walking through SoHo yesterday morning.
Two sets of confidential blueprints for the planned Freedom Tower, which is set to rise at Ground Zero, were carelessly dumped in a city garbage can on the corner of West Houston and Sullivan streets, The Post has learned. Experts said the detailed, floor-by-floor schematics contain enough detail for terrorists to plot a devastating attack. “Secure Document - Confidential,” warns the title page on each of the two copies of the 150-page schematic that a homeless, recovering drug addict discovered in the public trash can. “Any time a sensitive document is unintentionally left behind, it’s a treasure trove for a potential adversary,” aid Robert Strang, CEO of Investigative Management Group, a global security firm. “It enables them to look for vulnerabilities in design that they can target - an age-old military tactic.”
I commented to the publisher of my college newspaper recently that I wish our newspaper were a tabloid because it is so much easier to write headlines and copy for a tabloid. I stand by that, though I am thinking of a New York Daily News-type of tabloid and not a New York Post or National Enquirer.