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

[zats-clear.livejournal.com]

As a former AF Officer (worked for Space Command, no less LOL) who worked in one of those windowless buildings, I have to agree with you. I always suspend belief in those instances, whether reading fic or watching them use cell phones in the SGC on tv.

[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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[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

TPTB are just as bad. Daniel having his personal journals describing the Abydos mission at home, written in plain English? Oh hell no. And, as mentioned, cell phones. My personal canon is that key personnel probably have work laptops with unbreakable encryption on everything that they can carry out if needed (chasing The Trust, etc.) and have scramblers on their phone/computer lines at home. Daniel can catch up on journal reading and professional websurfing at home and that's about it. Which is probably why he and Sam are found on the base at all hours of the day or night. ;-)

[princessofg.livejournal.com]

yeah, the journals of daniel's at home in Fire and Water is what I was going to mention, like green_grrl did.

i had a distant relative who took some classified papers, as directed by his boss, out of his workplace in a locked briefcase and he was taking them to another place on a plane, and his orders were that he had to be awake and have the briefcase within arm's reach the whole time it was in his possession.

that's all i know firsthand about security stuff, but it's all very fascinating...

i was watching Paradise Lost the other night, and Maybourne and Jack are talking about totally secret stuff out on Jack's deck in Colorado Springs... so apparently they aren't worried about surveillance at that point. WTF?

how likely is the outdoor surveillance at Jack's house anyway?