Hey, You Can’t Take A PSP Into A Nuclear Warhead Facility!

Just think if someone showed up to work there wearing this.

Gameboy Micro + Pokemanz = Time flies.

The silo doors are closed! This is suicide!

Is it over, Yuri?
No comrade premier, it has only begun.

@Ur-Lord-Crypy: Calm down.

xnervex1

Hmmm, I'd say don't get too hung up on what the capabilities of the actual device are, be concerned about what could be smuggled in/out in the size of the device. A few ounces of C4 going in, some top secret part going out.

I feel bad for them but damn, they shoulda known better.

@Crippen: I would guess that cell phones in general aren't permitted.

It would of been great if they were caught watching an old re-run of Baywatch on a crap 14" tube tv and salivating over Pammy. Whilst smoking cigars and drinking whisky.

Pudgie'sSmokerGivesAGoodTongueing

No personal electronics of ANY variety are allowed in those facilities. I'm glad they're busted. That's an incredible potential security threat.

EnidHaermm

@Castleknight75: They would have been better to just put a game on a jump drive and play on their computer.They would have been better to just put a game on a jump drive and play on their computer.

That would have been an even worse breach of regulations.

D'oh!

Awesome.
Great to know that the idiots who work on the most important, dangerous stuff are so irresponsible that they bring damn video games to work.
ITS WORK you damn idiots. Get over it, and play a game when you get home.

Hell, I work in a damn video game store, and I dont touch anything till I get home....... Its called being responsible..

But i guess your parents dont teach you that type of stuff anymore, Lets rely on the FCAT tests to teach them stuff like that right...........

Ur-Lord-Crypy

@HulkShmash: GeoThermoNuclear War to be exact.

@TheLAG: can we get a pyro over here?

@TheNexusRebound: Especially when you've put the secrecy of a nuclear weapons facility at risk. I can see how that could tarnish even the best of resumes.

It's not like they brought a taco into maneuvering or anything...

Cocytus

@nico1606: lol!

kobeashi

@Komrade Kayce - Hero of Soviet Kotaku: That was Photoshopped!? I thought they might have bought a jumbo-sized psp from costco

@TheNexusRebound
Better than getting blue balls though eh?

nico1606

Frankly, I do not blame the government, these guys are one of the main defenses from people taking the incredibly valuable material that is being handled in the facility. Plus with the PSP being a wireless device it posses a security risk. They would have been better to just put a game on a jump drive and play on their computer...

Wouldn't a paper be a way to transmit information too? you could write on it after all. Rules like this can be taken to the extreme. Maybe if they made you throw the paper out as you left :P

@Komrade Kayce - Hero of Soviet Kotaku: Cellphones are the first thing to be banned from high-security areas. I have to give mine up all the time when I go for PATRIOT exercises, and PATRIOT isn't even all that secret.

Revenge_of_Nekojin

I refuse to get blown up by a nuclear warhead.

Not until said warhead gets a second analog stick.

@Komrade Kayce - Hero of Soviet Kotaku: Hey, it's late, cut a man some slack

Does this mean the iPhone is not going to be on the workplace?

@Komrade Kayce - Hero of Soviet Kotaku: Nah, I think they shoudl've just stuck to some good ol' fashioned Gameboys.
Advance ones if they were daring :)

While the U.S. military's reliance on contractors, sub-contractors, and sub-sub-contractors ad nauseum may save money...But it has made our military inherently less secure.

Military workers need to join, be trained as soldiers and go through the discipline of boot camp...Security guards, cooks, clerks, everyone.

A court martial, jail time and a dishonorable discharge is a much better deterrent to such frivolous and security compromising behavior than just getting fired from Kelly Girl.

biggeek

@Komrade Kayce - Hero of Soviet Kotaku: Except that cell phones and anything with recording or picture taking capabilities is also illegal in classified rooms. So no cell phones at work either.

Seriously, I'm a guard at a major hedge fund and if we're caught reading anything that does not pertain to work, we're immediately terminated, no questions asked.

ZivLucas

Be sure to spycheck often then. A quick stab in the back, friends will shrug it off, and spies will drop dead.

Someone should make video gaming an official religion that way acts like this would be considered discrimination and be against the law. "Sorry boss but it is pacmanidom todayand I'm required to play pacman for 30minutes at exactly 4:20pm or I'll go to the insert credit screen (what you Christians would call "hell")

@Trencher-1: It's bigger than the guy on the right's head.

SacGamer

"just bring a newspaper and do the crosswords, ok?"

Some places don't even allow that. I know at the prison I work at, you're not allowed to bring in any reading material and if it's not official bussiness, you have no reason to be reading it. I suspect these guys might even have similar rules. Needless to say, that PSP is a real no-go. I'm suprised that since it's so high security that they were allowed to enter with it.

@Monolith: Well, I don't work at a nuclear facility or anything, but I've got my DS with me to relax on breaks and lunch at work.

@Komrade Kayce - Hero of Soviet Kotaku: But if WiFi and data storage are some of the big problems with the PSP being brought in, wouldn't the same thing be said for the IPhone?

Heck if it was a 3Gs you could make video clips of top secret stuff. All versions would let you take pics or type notes/email/texts.

@Atomsk88: Don't secuity guards just read porn anymore?

That is a GIANT PSP

Trencher-1

@octalass:

But always sounds good.

Meeeh

Wow... that definitely sounds like something I would get busted for. When I was in the Army security duty was the biggest drag in the world... I would have loved a PSP or even a DS to kill the time...

@Desolation_Angel: I already made that joke, man.

HulkShmash

@Inzoum: If you can't see a problem with bringing wireless devices that transmit information into a a facility like this, or just game systems as a security guard for something like this I would hate for you to be in any position of power in America.

Unless I'm taking your post to seriously, in which case OH MAN YOU GOT ME GOOD!

@Inzoum: If you can't see a problem with bringing wireless devices that transmit information into a a facility like this, or just game systems as a security guard for something like this I would hate for you to be in any position of power in America.

Unless I'm taking your post to seriously, in which case OH MAN YOU GOT ME GOOD!

@Tyrannical: If I couldn't bring my laptop or PSP to my work every night, I would have gone insane months ago.

Not only that, but with a CFW PSP and a bit of homebrew knowledge, the device could turn into a means of stealing sensitive data.... Or they could just steal sensitive data by copying it straight on the memory card or an iPod or USB stick and run off with it... Come to think of it, they could write down sensitive data on their crossword puzzles as well... or memorize it.
Yeah, I think we should ban all means of storage, digital or not, and employ only lobotomized individuals in those nuclear warhead workshops. Yep, that sounds good...
Wait a minute, no it doesn't!

Inzoum

"Would you like to play a game?"

"Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?"

"How 'bout Halo bitch?"

That must blow because government jobs can get you seriously black balled for screwing up.

I'm guessing playing defcon would be out of the question.

edit: Dammit beaten by Monolith. I'll get you next time! *shakes fist*

Makes you wonder what security guards do when bored.

For example, I know someone who actually worked a graveyard shift and since it's dead during the night, him and his colleagues would play games on a 360. Really, the only thing they were tasked with (as to what he told me) was to lookout for suspicious individuals wandering around.

Yeah, that never happened to them.

Atomsk88

Finally, the iPhone would have a place as a covert-op games player.


Edit: Btw Luke, thats probably your absolute worst photoshop ever, lol. Its so bad its good.

@Monolith: THERMO NUCLEAR WAR.

HulkShmash

Is constructing potentially massively lethal war weapons, and maintaining some of the word's tightest security really that boring?

I hope the game was worth it. Maybe it was DEFCON.
Next time bring a good book.

Monolith

OMG Didn't they know that portable gaming systems set off nukes?! GEEZ!

Patriot Infinity

I always ask myself what Jack Bauer would do. It never works out.

I surf the web and play my DS at work every night. Lucky me :)

Tyrannical

@Ur-Lord-Crypy: Working in any industry that has the word "Nuclear" in it tends to involve long frequent periods of downtime. Before you go on your rant about "kids these days" you might want to consider perhaps that they were using the devices at times when there was literally nothing else to do.

That being said, I have little sympathy because it's also extremely likely that they also aren't allowed to bring any non-work related reading material into the protected area either so it's not like it's not obvious that electronics would also be forbidden.

For a time in my life I worked in nuclear power plants for a contractor during maintenance outages. I probably spent more than half of my paid time sitting in break rooms and offices waiting to be cleared to go back into the plant because they were testing something or whatnot. There were similar restrictions on what could be brought into the plant. I probably read through the Spring 2000 Grainger catalog about 4 times at one job.

Kandralla

I'd be much more amused if say someone brought in an Xbox 360 or PS3 to the facility and was playing online multiplayer.

@Phydeaux: lol. finally. :p

@SeraphX2: Wouldn't you prefer to play a nice game of chess?

@SinisterBill:
but depending on the capabilities of the device you can smuggle something even more devistating - information. depending on what it can do, it can be used to purposely or even hijacked to transport information, picutres, talks or secure phone calls of classified information...
There's reasons why where I work you cant bring in anything...even a turned off cell phone isn't allowed because supposedly there's a way to turn on a powered off cell phone with a signal and then its too easy to use it as a listening device....
Those security guards better be glad they're not actually in the military, they'd probably already be at Ft. Levenworth inprocessing at the jail.

@HulkShmash: Well then I suck. Wish you could set "see all comments" as the default.

@WolfmanWalt: Well, they're the security guards. I imagine if anyone is going to get a PSP past security it would be security itself.

vwllss.