Intel

[brainofck]

So, I finally asked my person I know who actually has the big security clearance about "the box" he sometimes works in. This is a place that you cannot enter without a certain level of security clearance. Well, actually, as I learned yesterday, you *can* enter for certain specific reasons, but everybody has to close their doors along the route you will be taking, and you have an escort the entire time and a red light blinks in all the corridors you have to take so that people will know that there is a person without clearance in the area.

According to my source, cellphones are confiscated before you enter, and if you are stupid enough to take your personal laptop into the facility, it doesn't come out! He knew a guy that happened to. *laughs and points*

I forgot to ask this guy, but I know other people who work in secure facilities. They are not allowed to send faxes from work and it seems to me that I have had issues communicating with these people via e-mail. Like they can't send/receive attachments or something like that.

Anyway, all this to say, considering the level of secrecy around the SGC, I wonder if it is a "box?" Everybody writes about particularly Daniel bringing work home, but I'm thinking it seems highly unlikely that anything gets out of the Mountain.

Just my thoughts.

Comments

[angiepen.livejournal.com]

I do a lot of eyerolling when I read fics where there's little or no security around the Mountain or the Stargate program or the team members themselves. Some of the things the characters have done in stories are ludicrous and makes it difficult to suspend disbelief. The way those folks blab and scatter classified around, they'd have been stripped of their clearances and kicked off the program ages ago. :P

Angie, who used to work in a box

[alessiana.livejournal.com]

I agree. What they get away with in fan fiction is absurd. Obviously I read it, suspending disbelief like zats_clear above, and I don't hold it against the writer either, but it is kinda silly.

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