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[-] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 69 points 10 months ago

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@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] GarfGirl@hexbear.net 50 points 10 months ago

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

[-] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 100 points 10 months ago

this is a very well known smear/discredit tactic the CIA uses

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 76 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] WithoutFurtherBelay@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

That’s wild, what the actual shit?

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 35 points 10 months ago

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

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago

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

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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”

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 40 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

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

[-] jaeme@hexbear.net 44 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

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

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] MorelaakIsBack@hexbear.net 40 points 10 months ago
[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 40 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[-] FodlegBob@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

how was he accessing child porn from jail?

[-] italktothewind@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

this link isn't working for me

[-] MattsAlt@hexbear.net 32 points 10 months ago

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

[-] WithoutFurtherBelay@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

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

[-] O__O@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 8 points 10 months ago

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

[-] MichaelFassbendersHog@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago

A well known CIA smear tactic.

[-] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] blight@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago
[-] MaxOS@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago
[-] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

WATCH HIM AS HE GLOWS

[-] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago

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

[-] WithoutFurtherBelay@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago
[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

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

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

But was it useful information?

[-] wopazoo@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

https://wikileaks.org/vault7/

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

[-] D61@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

This is from a 2016 breech... so kinda very old.

also....

CIA guy gets angry that CIA is going to outsource his job... releases a bunch of information.

Also... article mentions Child SA material that the dude may have been into (or maybe it was pedo-jacketing?)

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