He admitted he REpoxsted the photos. He denied sourcing them.
The original posting of all these photos was on the website board.4chan.org, where HE admits posting them. That’s where it all started. That’s the epicenter of this Internet quake. No one has found any earlier postings despite all his flurries of disclaimers, that he saw “people downloading them and he just saw an opportunity to make some bit coins.” No body has found the “people.” He’s it. He is essentially the “patient zero” of the infection, so to speak. . . and he had the files on his computer as the original source. He posted a shot of his computer screen showing blocked out un-posted racier pictures he would sell for bit coins. He only started to deny he “hacked” the accounts and downloaded them after the criminal nature of his acts was brought to his attention. He found out he might be looking at 5 years in the slammer for EACH violation of a FEDERAL HOMELAND SECURITY LAW. . . That’s 5 years imprisonment for each and every photo and video as a separate offense. If I were he, I’d want to distance myself from the hacking and downloading as well! I’m not sure if the moon would be far enough.
Paradise, I think he’s trying to cover his ass. Of course he’s denying sourcing them. . . But he originally was bragging he was the source.
The fact is that he NOW claims he wouldn’t “know how to do this,” and is not competent to do anything like that. . . but, Paradise, he’s a systems administrator level IT guy, an assistant SUPERVISOR, no less. He’s got a degree in computer engineering and systems administration, and he’s claiming he doesn’t know how to do pretty basic data-base security stuff? RIGHT! Sure. And I’m the Pope.