But Ghost Rider he wasn't. He offered his services to the journo to expose this alledged security gap.
If his family were being held you said yourself would he say anything? Probably not - but that's slightly different to voluteering his services.
Had he attempted to express his concerns to his employers, BAA, etc?
Yes I agree the security staff/BAA have the majority responsibilty in preventing security breaches but then don't we all have some responsibilty? After all we are all working or travelling on these aircraft.
As has been said before what has this achieved except to scare the travelling public and sell newspapers? Now if the NOTW had taken it's case to BAA/DETR/the caterers and been fobbed off and no attempt made to change things then maybe they would have been justified in publishing. But they didn't - too boring and not sensationalist enough.
Other security concerns have been brought to the appropiate authorities concerned but things haven't changed - at least not visibly - but neither I nor the reportee(s) would call the press and offer to help them sell papers. Maybe we are wrong?