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.”
That passage kind of blew my mind. What kind of IT person is THAT?
Years ago, I knew of a guy who worked at a large company, and was involved in servers. He set up a server on company hardware, and was storing terabytes of movies and music on it.
And a lot of people knew about it and used it, or so he said.
When he proudly told me about it, I was appalled. “Are you insane? Do you know what could happen to you if the company found it, or someone ratted you out to an anti-piracy or government group? They aren’t going to go after Joe Blow with a bunch of movies, they are going to go after someone if they have big pockets...and where will that leave you? Do you think they are just going to pay their multi-million dollar fine and be done with it? You would be ruined, and rightfully so!”
I still can’t believe the person did that. How could someone be so stupid?