"WikiLeaks" ** Do you remember? It has repeatedly announced "unspeakable secrets", pushing the United States and its allies to the forefront again and again, making founder Assange in the limelight and a group of people in trouble.
Joshua Schulte, a former employee of the CIA, provided a large number of secrets to **, and on February 1, local time, the Federal Court in New York sentenced him to 40 years in prison on charges of espionage, computer hacking and other crimes.
[Dark under the light] colleague's nickname triggered a leak of revenge
Schulte, 35, joined the CIA in 2010 and worked in an elite hacker group. He quickly obtained the agency's highest security clearance to design and develop programs to hack into computers, smartphones, and even smart TVs.
During his time at work, Schulte worked hard but never kept up with the CIA's plans, and his colleagues nicknamed him "Walking Deadlines." This made Schulte very unhappy, and wrote a full-page complaint email and sent it to the leadership. But the C.I.A. ignored the complaint, and when Schulte found out that the mail had gone to sea, he was disappointed. In 2016, he thought about resigning, but before leaving, he decided to take revenge.
The CIA has a hacking arsenal called Vault 7, which is believed to be a combination of multiple computer viruses that can be used to infiltrate and damage the target's computer and technology systems, and is an important part of the CIA's cyberwarfare**.
Schulte was transferred within the C.I.A. in 2016 due to discord with his colleagues, and his management authority was revoked. But he kept his hand before his authority was revoked.
On April 20 of that year, Schulte secretly created an administrator session for one of the servers in Treasure Trove 7 and used this secret identity to perform a series of operations to hack into the backup system, copy files from the hacker's arsenal, and then delete the log files, restoring the system to the state it was in before he stole it, so that it could not be detected.
Schulte collected a whopping 34 terabytes of material, equivalent to 2.2 billion pages of documents.
Schulte left the CIA in November 2016 and then used his personal computer at home to send stolen CIA documents to WikiLeaks with the help of anonymization tools. Once the transfer is complete, he formats the computer hard drive.
In March 2017, WikiLeaks began releasing classified CIA documents, revealing a total of 8,761 documents, including information about the CIA's cyber known as "Dome 7".
The documents describe how the C.I.A. hacked into Apple and Android smartphones or planted wiretaps on IPTVs to spy on foreign intelligence.
[Heavy sentence] was sentenced to 40 years in prison, claiming to be a "scapegoat".
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) intervened in the investigation, and they were surprised that the CIA did not install a surveillance system for such an important hacking tool. Had it not been for WikiLeaks revealing the documents, the CIA would never have even been aware of the theft of its data, and CIA officials said, "We may continue to be kept in the dark."
The F.B.I. quickly named Schulte as a suspect, claiming to have found a large number of child pornography images on his computer, and put Schulte in jail for containment. In September 2017, Schulte was charged with "possession and transmission of child pornography", and has since been charged with "espionage" and "computer hacking".
The U.S. Department of Justice issued a statement saying that the incident constituted the largest data breach in the history of the CIA and became one of the largest classified information breaches in U.S. history.
Schulte has previously pleaded not guilty. He has argued in court that the CIA and the FBI were embarrassed by the leak scandal and used him as a "scapegoat."
Until February 1, the Federal Court of New York sentenced Schulte to 40 years in prison for "espionage, computer hacking, contempt of court, false statements, and child pornography" in the "largest leak case in the history of the CIA."
Schulte has betrayed his country by committing some of the most outrageous and heinous espionage crimes in U.S. history," said U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, adding that Schulte's retaliation against the CIA "has caused incalculable damage to our ***."
Prior to the theft, former U.S. soldier Manning and CIA ex-*** Deng had caused an uproar over the leak of classified U.S. documents, but even with the lessons of the past, the CIA failed to strengthen security measures. In the wake of the theft, the CIA banned a number of intelligence agencies and made more countries aware of the need to guard against surveillance and surveillance by intelligence agencies from other countries.
Assange, the secret that has to be said
This verdict brought WikiLeaks** and founder Julian Assange, who had been dormant for many years, back into the limelight.
As the founder of WikiLeaks, Assange was a household name a ten-year ago. But in recent years, he has been restricted from public appearances, and has rarely been talked about anymore.
Since WikiLeaks released a large number of secret documents related to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2010, Assange has become a "thorn in the side" of the United States**, a "Robin Hood" on the Internet, and a "007" in the press.
In July 2010, Assange began a life of wandering around the world. At the age of 39, he was living in a fixed home, traveling all over the world and carrying a computer with him.
In August 2010, Assange was charged by Swedish prosecutors with suspicion, and he was arrested in the United Kingdom. A hacker whose goal is to expose the truth and attract the attention of the world is put in a cell because of the ** case.
In June 2012, while on bail, Assange entered the Ecuadorian embassy in the United Kingdom disguised as a courier to seek asylum. In an 18-square-metre room at the embassy, Assange embarked on a seven-year lockdown.
On April 11, 2019, Ecuador withdrew Assange's asylum and the United Kingdom** entered the embassy to arrest him. On April 11 of the same year, the British dragged Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in the United Kingdom and escorted him into a police car, which shocked the world.
On May 1, 2019, a British court sentenced Assange to 50 weeks in prison for escaping bail and detained him in Belmarsh, London's highest-security prison.
Assange has now been held in Belmar prison for five years, and he is now at risk of being extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States, where he faces up to 175 years in prison.
Compiled by journalist He Boqi.