{"id":356,"date":"2006-09-01T13:34:11","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T18:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/whistleblower-posts-video-on-youtube\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T17:32:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T22:32:54","slug":"whistleblower-posts-video-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/whistleblower-posts-video-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower Posts Video on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another example of the growing influence of online social networks, the Washington Post is reporting on a whistleblower from Lockheed Martin, who posted his concerns about security flaws on a fleet of Coast Guard boats in a video commentary on YouTube.com after being ignored by his bosses and government engineers.<\/p>\n<p>From the article &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael De Kort was frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old Lockheed Martin engineer had complained to his bosses. He had told his story to government investigators. He had called congressmen.<\/p>\n<p>But when no one seemed to be stepping up to correct what he saw as critical security flaws in a fleet of refurbished Coast Guard patrol boats, De Kort did just about the only thing left he could think of to get action: He made a video and posted it on YouTube.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/08\/28\/AR2006082801293.html\">On YouTube, Charges of Security Flaws:<br \/>\nEx-Lockheed Worker Takes Concerns Over Coast Guard Ships to the Web<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another example of the growing influence of online social networks, the Washington Post is reporting on a whistleblower from Lockheed Martin, who posted his concerns about security flaws on a fleet of Coast Guard boats in a video commentary on YouTube.com after being ignored by his bosses and government engineers. From the article [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/whistleblower-posts-video-on-youtube\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Whistleblower Posts Video on YouTube<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6261,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/6261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}