The conference chair couldn't help giggling. What was it he said? "Hey you better hang up before the police arrives"?
Someone leaves their doors unlocked it doesn't mean you should be entering.
More importantly, how on bloody earth are defence discussions happening in a situation that can so easily be defeated.
The officials themselves are to blame for blatantly terrible security protocols.
Yea, well, it's a useful function of journalism to poke their head in open doors and say "you're doing _WHAT_ in here?!"
I slot this in alongside the time US nuclear missile officers were found asleep, with the door open waiting for takeout - simultaneously seriously disturbing and quite funny.
https://www.cnn.com/2013/10/23/us/air-force-nuclear-silo-doo...