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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/7\/13\/23208635\/cia-wikileaks-vault-7-joshua-schulte-conviction<\/a>
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On Wednesday, a jury in New York convicted ex-Central Intelligence Agency engineer Joshua Schulte on all nine charges he faced (as first reported by @InnerCityPress<\/a>) as a result of the single largest leak in agency history. Dubbed Vault 7<\/a>, the files and information shared by WikiLeaks in 2017 exposed a trove of tactics and exploits the CIA used to hack its targets\u2019 computers<\/a>, iPhones or Android phones<\/a>, and even Samsung smart TVs<\/a>. <\/p>\n

CIA spokesperson Tammy Thorp said in a statement given to The Verge<\/em>, \u201cToday\u2019s verdict affirms that maintaining the security of our nation\u2019s cyber capabilities is of the utmost importance. It\u2019s critical to the security of the American people, and it\u2019s critical to our advantage against adversaries abroad. As set forth in the trial, unauthorized disclosures not only jeopardize US personnel and operations, but also equip our adversaries with tools and information to do us harm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schulte, the subject of a lengthy profile in the New Yorker<\/em><\/a> that described him as \u201cabrasive\u201d and then went into far worse details, was arrested in 2018, initially charged with possession of child pornography, and has been in jail ever since. <\/p>\n

The article details Operations Support Branch (OSB), where Schulte worked and reportedly built hacking tools by quickly turning prototypes into actual exploits that could monitor or steal information from the targeted person\u2019s devices. It reports that investigators obtained evidence against Schulte through his own lapses in personal security, like storing passwords on his phone that could be used to access his encrypted storage.<\/p>\n

It even goes into the trouble investigators had obtaining the Vault 7 documents \u2014 they remained classified despite being leaked and publicly available on the internet, leading FBI officials to download the cache over Wi-Fi at a Starbucks to a freshly purchased laptop that immediately became officially classified, stored in a supervisor\u2019s office, and only accessible with Top Secret clearance.<\/p>\n

Additional charges accusing him directly of stealing classified national defense information and sending it to WikiLeaks were filed later. In 2020, the government\u2019s first attempt at prosecuting Schulte ended in a mistrial as a jury convicted him on contempt of court charges as well as lying to FBI investigators but couldn\u2019t agree on the rest.<\/p>\n