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>Joshua Schulte
pedo soiboi - from 2018
fwderal investigators believe a former CIA software engineer who is being held on child pornography charges is the leaker responsible for the largest loss of classified documents in the agency’s history, according to reports in The Washington Post and The New York Times. The leaked documents, which included details on the CIA’s hacking tools, were published by WikiLeaks in March 2017 by WikiLeaks under the codename “Vault 7.”
According to Schulte, the government barred him from taking a trip to Mexico shortly after the WikiLeaks postings. He believes investigators thought he was planning to flee the country, but he said the trip was a previously planned vacation with his brother.
“Due to these unfortunate coincidences the FBI ultimately made the snap judgment that I was guilty of the leaks and targeted me,” Schulte said in a statement posted to Facebook.
Schulte said in documents posted online that he reported “incompetent management and bureaucracy” at the CIA and then left the agency in 2016 after he was painted as a disgruntled employee. He said after the leaks, suspicion fell on him because he was “the only one to have recently departed [the CIA engineering group] on poor terms,” according to Schulte’s statement.
Federal authorities say they found more than 10,000 child pornography files on a server he created in 2009 when he was in college. The server was started as a business by Schulte in order to share movies and other digital files, according to The Washington Post. Schulte said although he created the server and maintained it, 50 to 100 people had access to the server.
Investigators provided messages in court documents suggesting Schulte was aware there were encrypted images of children being molested by adults, but in one message he told a user, “Just don’t put anything too illegal on there.”
According to the complaint, the FBI found an encrypted 54 gigabyte folder in a server located on Schulte’s desktop computer. Agents were able to get around the encryption by using passwords found on Schulte’s cell phone. He had consented to a search of the phone. It contained more than 10,000 files that the FBI said “appear consistent with child pornography,” including images and videos. The files were organized into folders with titles like, “kids” and “young” and subfolders like “13yo in bath” and “11yr old.”
According to Donaldson, during an interview with agents, “Schulte was asked what he maintained inside the encrypted portions of the Desktop Computer. He responded that he used the encrypted portions of his Desktop Computer to store pornography. He further claimed that he encrypted it because he did not want his family to find it. When asked if he would be willing to provide investigators with the password to the encrypted portions of the Desktop Computer, he declined.”
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