I tend to agree with tilii, it is important that breaches in security come to people attention. If the employee had gone to his company about the lax security there is nothing to say that it would not have been brushed under the carpet.
If you had not noticed gentlemen there is a war going on at the moment, and it is a good thing that people are concerned enough to try to speak out. This guy/girl who went to the papers may just have saved some lives, risking their job at the same time. Being one of the people that is about to lose their jobs due to Sept 11th I do feel quite strongly about the presses sensationalist stories but on this occasion I cant see that the person would have been able to do much else. Seeing as security had already been stepped up and this had not been addressed tells the story itself.
The response from this reminds me when those pilots got caught drinking within eight hours by Channel Four. People then were saying how out of line the reporter was doing a sneaky thing like that.