OZone security not what it used to be

Gaps in Australia's airport security have come under the spotlight.

This time, two men posing as technicians stole custom computers that may contain top secret information from Sydney Airport, Australia's largest.
The bogus technicians had apparently been given a free run of the airport's top security mainframe room late last month.

"Inside, they spent two hours disconnecting two computers, which they put on trolleys and wheeled out of the room, past the security desk, into the lift and out of the building," the Sydney Morning Herald said on Friday.

The machines are said to have held thousands of confidential files including top-secret communications between customs investigators, federal police and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.

But investigating security agencies say there were no sensitive data on the two customs computers.

A spokeswoman for federal police also confirmed police and customs officials were investigating the theft, but would not confirm exactly what was stolen.