A story about Lockheed Martin security

tldr Dumb story I have about Lockheed Martin thinking my brother was a spy. And how strict their security is.

I see people questioning why we can’t get nuts and bolts evidence, or even photographs. Why can’t whistleblowers walk out with a craft?

About 15 years ago my brother worked for Lockheed-Martin in NY. He worked in HR and told me that most of his job was paperwork, and occasionally picking up engineers from the airport in a limousine. He said they worked on nuclear submarines at his facility.

One day he went to the local Burger King for lunch. He got a kids meal for whatever reason, and returned to work. At the exterior security check, he showed his badge and was quickly waved through. But at the next checkpoint inside the building, they had to look through all of his stuff. Everything was fine until they peeked in his Burger King bag and saw that the happy meal toy was a CD (I think some computer game.)

They made my brother sit and wait as they popped the cd into the computer to check it out. And even after realizing that this was just an employee entering the offices with a computer game. They walked him down to the incinerator and tossed the CD in, as is protocol.

He told me this story years ago, long before I was deep into the subject. But I think of it often when Reddit users are mad that we don’t have nuts and bolts proof. I can’t imagine the security protocols that happen when you’re reverse engineering NHI craft.

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