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mechwarrior2 [he/him]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago

CNN - Former CIA employee sentenced to 40 years in prison after carrying out largest data leak in agency’s history

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CNN - Former CIA employee sentenced to 40 years in prison after carrying out largest data leak in agency’s history

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mechwarrior2 [he/him]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago
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A former CIA employee was sentenced to 40 years in prison after carrying out the largest data leak in the agency’s history, the US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York announced Thursday.
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    Make plans for Moscow before you do this.

    The US government does not actually believe in “whistleblowers” in any form. No matter what it says they always punish morality.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      Unless you’re a media saavy advisor who publishes “insider” accounts of random bullshit or the NYT best sellers. None of that is consequential so they’ll allow it.

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    He was also found guilty in 2023 of receiving, possessing and transporting child pornography

    why cant libertarian types ever just do one good thing without also doing horrible shit like this

    • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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      this is a very well known smear/discredit tactic the CIA uses

      • GaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        Yea planting cp on people’s computers is the fed equivalent of cops sprinkling crack on dead bodies

        All the arrests and charges for that were after he was caught leaking data

        • dRLY [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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          Makes me wonder if they actually store CP in all the source code or final executable auto downloads it when ran. Would be a very reliable way to have a very easy way to sway public and media in the event they feel their case is weak. That way it makes it very very hard to have the person(s) become a hero. Given the way that the NSA and CIA basically can’t be controlled anymore by any branch of the government. Wouldn’t shock me for them to maybe already have shit planted on everyone they see as maybe being an issue or a threat to their powers.

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          That’s wild, what the actual shit?

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        except everyone at the cia is a pedo already so they probably just had this ready to go.

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          Unlimited access to the CSAM hoard is one of the perks of joining up

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            deleted by creator

            • Outdoor_Catgirl [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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              Wtf why would they post more pedo shit after the take over? Vile.

          • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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            https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/cia-employees-sex-crimes-children-secret-files-foia

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              Yeah, see? Was not joking.

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        Well yes. But at the same time the CIA has been engaged with CSAM among themselves and acquitted by the courts because going to trial would reveal “state secrets”

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      Sounds like this was just a personal revenge thing against the CIA for hiring an outside contractor instead of him. If you ping the soul detector at the front door they don’t let you in the building in the first place.

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        Lmao. Literally one of the main reasons why you don’t hire mercenaries is because your regular troops will become jaded and kill you. NatSec is such a fucking grift industry that mfs forget how to cover their asses

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    His leaks basically confirm tech imperialism and the violation of digital sovereigty via export of nonfree software. Things like malware specifically designed for backdooring nonfree programs.

    I’m glad that digital sovereignty is entering the conversation more and more in leftist circles.

    Proprietary software is a paper tiger that can be defeated.

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      Do you think agencies like CNN or MSNBC would dare use the term “dystopian” to describe the US? Something about that word just seems like an escalation that sorta normalizes the leftish part of saying the quiet part out loud if that makes sense

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        CNN and MSNBC would never describe the US as anything but a paragon of “freedom” right after reporting on how a man was beaten to death by police for refusing to purchase Israeli anal lube

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          “Baton struck by brain tissue of non-compliant man in pleasure enhancing liquid incident claims Hamas run health Ministry.”

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      Shit like this shows exactly why the US was so mad about Huawei in Europe but if you show it to a lib they’ll just double down on CNN talking points.

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    07

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    please use a slightly more kosher and halal source https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-02-02/Ex-CIA-coder-gets-40-years-in-jail-for-giving-secrets-to-WikiLeaks-1qSdxWkAS6k

    • FodlegBob [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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      how was he accessing child porn from jail?

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      this link isn’t working for me

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    All the more strange how Lee Harvey Oswald made it back into the US after defecting to the USSR.

    Who needs to kill a cop to make the person being framed into an acceptable target when there are cyber weapons to just place CP on the target’s devices instead

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      This implies that the CIA literally keeps a child porn stash at all times within easy access of most of it’s members

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        The snowdon leaks show 5 eyes agencies use rape allegations and other reputation destroying techniques when they need to discredit a target. CP is definitely in that arsenal.

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        epstein

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Like how Dylan Roof thinks he’s going to be pardoned once a fascist comes into office, this guy will be pardoned when Bernie wins.

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      He was also watching child porn, so I doubt it.

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        A well known CIA smear tactic.

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          There’s no level that they won’t go to and it’s a human evil incomprehensible to me. Yet, we’re the crazy ones for pointing out their well-documented methods and admissions.

          Most people will just chalk this up to the world not being fair and move on. How does anyone have freedom when an agency like this exists

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        It’s a tough call tbh: on one hand, as others have pointed out, it fits the methods of the CIA attempting to discredit a whistleblower. On the other hand, nobody made him get that goatee.

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    deleted by creator

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      Or the DPRK. He could’ve helped them out with their IT stuff.

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    based!?

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    there goes my hero

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      WATCH HIM AS HE GLOWS

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    You can see what a liberal actually believes about the US by seeing their approval of this

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    https://wikileaks.org/vault7/

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    Im genuinely concerned I’ll get suicided if I press the Wikileaks link

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    He was just exercising freeze-peach in a totalitarian regime.

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    But was it useful information?

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      https://wikileaks.org/vault7/

      https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/ - press release on Vault 7, the reveal of secret CIA hacking tools

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