Federal authorities searched his home last year and he was indicted in September on ‘charges of possessing, receiving and transporting child pornography’. From 2009 when a college student.. He has pleaded not guilty and is in federal custody. Schulte has also denied any involvement in the leak . Prosecutors said in court documents they plan to file a new indictment in the next 45 days.
On Twitter, WikiLeaks shared The Post’s story and wrote:
“US gov says that it suspects a former a young New York CIA officer is WikiLeaks’ #Vault7 source–because he complained to Congress of abuse in the CIA–but have no evidence to indict. So they put him in jail on improbable child porn accusations instead.”
Schulte’s family said they believe Schulte is being made to be a “scapegoat” for the CIA’s inability to keep its sensitive files secure. His father said Schulte complained about security vulnerabilities at the CIA, first to his bosses and then to the agency’s inspector general and a House intelligence committee member.
Interesting info on the guy at this link continued:
https://heavy.com/news/2018/05/joshua-schulte/
MARCH 7, 2017 : (WIKILEAKS BEGINS LEAKING NEW SERIES OF LEAKS, WHICH IT DUBS “VAULT 7” CONCERNING CIA’S CCI’S HACKING OPERATIONS) Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named “Vault 7” by WikiLeaks, it is the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency.
The first full part of the series, “Year Zero”, comprises 8,761 documents and files from an isolated, high-security network situated inside the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virgina. It follows an introductory disclosure last month of ***CIA targeting French political parties and candidates in the lead up to the 2012 presidential election.***
Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized “zero day” exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation. This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA. The archive appears to have been circulated among former U.S. government hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive.
“Year Zero” introduces the scope and direction of the CIA’s global covert hacking program, its malware arsenal and dozens of “zero day” weaponized exploits against a wide range of U.S. and European company products, include Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones.
Since 2001 the CIA has gained political and budgetary preeminence over the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). The CIA found itself building not just its now infamous drone fleet, but a very different type of covert, globe-spanning force — its own substantial fleet of hackers. The agency’s...
(Excerpt) Read more at wikileaks.org ...-—— Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed (Wikileaks unveils the CIA), Wikileaks ^ | 3/7/2017 | Wikileaks
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.”
Schulte’s father, Roger, told The New York Times, his son created the serve when he was 20 and “had so many people accessing it he didn’t care what people put on it.”
Thanks for posting the article. I read the part where he blogged about his beliefs, and while his views on small government are good, his relative morality statement was appalling to me. (There is no “good” or “bad”)
Normally when I hear these things in this context, my first inclination is to regard the child pornography as a frame-up, but it was clear to me he knew stuff was being stored on there.
If I had a server and allowed people to store files on there, I would damn sure not allow them to store things like that, because it then becomes mine, and no amount of excuses are going to change anyone’s mind, and definitely not legal minds.
Given that he is an IT professional, I find it amazing and unbelievable he had that attitude.
I generally try to respect some of the views of libertarians since there are some aspects I appreciate, but people like him repel me and make that harder to do.