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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday June 20 2018, @05:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the hacking-for-freedom-fries dept.

Ex-CIA Employee Charged In Leak Of Classified Hacking Tools

A former CIA employee was charged Monday with leaking information on CIA hacking tools to Wikileaks.

Joshua Adam Schulte, 29, was charged with the theft of classified national defense information in a 13-count indictment handed down by a grand jury, the Justice Department said Monday. According to the indictment, Schulte stole the classified information from a CIA network in 2016 and then transmitted it to an organization that was unidentified in the indictment.

Schulte is also accused of intentionally damaging a CIA computer system, deleting records of his activities and blocking others from accessing the system. Schulte is currently in custody on child pornography charges. He's pleaded not guilty to those charges.

The leaks, which Wikileaks called "Vault 7," revealed tools used by the CIA to hack phones, TVs and computers as part of its investigations. The disclosures showed the lengths to which government investigators go to access electronic evidence, tailoring hacks for specific smart TVs, for example.

[...] "Schulte utterly betrayed this nation and downright violated his victims. As an employee of the CIA, Schulte took an oath to protect this country, but he blatantly endangered it by the transmission of classified Information," William F. Sweeney Jr., head of the New York FBI office, said in a statement Monday.

Man who allegedly gave Vault 7 cache to WikiLeaks busted by poor opsec

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

FBI used passwords used on suspect's cellphone to also get into his computer.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/ex-cia-engineer-indicted-on-several-new-charges-connected-to-vault-7-leak/


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday June 20 2018, @08:08AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 20 2018, @08:08AM (#695511) Journal

    The tl;dr point: "how likely is it that the initial child porn and the subsequent leaking accusations were completely manufactured?".
    With the consequence of:

    So do not anger the mighty, or they will ruin your life, if only to strike fear into the hearts of other opponents (not enemies!).

    Don't have dealings with the mighty.
    But if you do, don't be shy to anger it, only be vary careful to plausibly frame someone else.
    Because you have no warranty that, without plausibly misdirecting them, you won't be the one to be framed by the mighty.
    If they need a scape goat, it may end very well in you being the "chosen one". Or, for the current context, Joshua Adam Schulte.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
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