Alleged Vault 7 Leaker Charged With Stealing Gov't Secrets, Child Porn Possession, And Copyright Infringement?

Alleged Vault 7 Leaker Charged With Stealing Gov't Secrets, Child Porn Possession, And Copyright Infringement?

7 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180619/16413640071/alleged-vault-7-leaker-charged-with-stealing-govt-secrets-child-porn-possession-copyright-infringement.shtml

The US government has taken down another alleged leaker. Joshua Schulte, a former NSA and CIA operative, had his apartment raided by the feds last March. The raid targeted documents showing Schulte had leaked CIA hacking tools to Wikileaks (the "Vault 7" collection). But it uncovered a whole lot of child porn -- 10,000 images on Schulte's personal computer and his file-sharing server that held another 5 terabytes of data.

The first criminal complaint [PDF] by the DOJ contained nothing but child porn charges. It suggests the former government spook didn't practice much opsec when not on the clock. One IRC chat shows Schulte's aware encryption is sometimes only a temporary deterrent if the government really wants to find out what's been sent or shared. But then he apparently went on to provide the government with some easily-accessible evidence.