We all know that maintaining security againts terrorist attacks is a virtually impossible task, we only have to think back to the IRA mortar attack from the Heathrow car park a few years ago to see that. As long as planes fly there will be ways to take them down, you could sit in Hyde park and plink them with shoulder launched SAMs if you felt like it.
This journo and his driver need to have the book thrown at them. We're all for finding and closing loopholes in security, but these guys did this for no other reason than to sell newspapers and in so doing further eroded the confidence of the flying public. The relevant authorities should be prosecuting these guys very agressively. Not just for the actual lapse in security but more to protect jobs in the industry they serve so that the next journalist who gets a phone call from some plonker who wants to be famous reports the lapse to the relevant authorities rather than splashing it on the front page.