I do not agree with the correspondants who suggest the journalist should be prosecuted. He has merely brought this lapse of security to the attention of those who should be responsible for maintaining it.
Had the journalist suggested that such a method could be employed to gain entry to a parked airplane, I feel sure he would have been ridiculed, and i doubt he would have been given the opportunity to demonstrate the lack of sucurity. There4 is now no doubt that some remedial action will take place, action that would not have been taken had the journalist exposed the situation. The fact that he added to the circulation of his newspaper while doing so is of no consequence.
As for the correspondant who suggested that his or her company pilots and crew are responsible for searching the airplane prior to accepting it, I do not believe that they would have uncovered the arms if hidden as suggested by the journalist.