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Man Stores AI-Generated ‘Robot Porn' on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets (www.404media.co)
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A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network.

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[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 46 points 5 months ago (2 children)

From the official decision:

The Individual’s employer initiated a “forensic examination” after it detected the Individual transferring “large amounts of data” to the DOE site’s network on March 23, 2023. Ex. 4 at 18. On October 12, 2023, the Individual was interviewed by his employer, during which he explained that when he was setting up a cloud storage account related to his position at the DOE site, he also connected his personal cloud storage account to his employer’s account. Id.; see also Tr. at 110 (reflecting the Individual’s testimony at the hearing that he was unaware that the sexually explicit images had been uploaded to DOE site’s network until he was interviewed). The Individual “thought that even though his personal drives were connected to [his employer’s], they were somehow partitioned, and his personal material would not contaminate his [government-issued computer].” Ex. 4 at 18. He stated that the sexually explicit images were an accumulation of “‘25– 30 years’ worth of pornographic material’ he had collected on his personal computer . . . .” Id. at 17. The Individual denied that he searched for, or generated, sexually explicit material while working. Id. at 18. The Individual also stated that he has suffered from depression throughout his life, and he had been taking medication and seeing psychiatrists for his depression since he was a minor. Ex. 3 at 14.

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The Individual met with the DOE Psychologist on February 6, 2024, for a psychological evaluation. Ex. 7 at 30. He told the DOE Psychologist that he began experiencing a depressive episode in 2021 or 2022 which had persisted through 2023. Id. at 34. During the depressive episode he felt “extremely isolated and lonely,” and started “playing” with tools that made generative images as a coping strategy, including “robot pornography.” Id. at 32. The Individual was using his personal cellphone to view the generative images, but he wanted to view larger images, so he viewed the images using his government-issued computer. Id. He also reported that, since the 1990s, he had maintained a “giant compressed file with several directories of pornographic images,” which he moved to his personal cloud storage drive so he could use them to make generative images. Id. It was this directory of sexually explicit images that was ultimately uploaded to his employer’s network when he performed a back-up procedure on March 23, 2023. Id. He admitted to the DOE Psychologist that he should have realized his directory of sexually explicit images would get backed up to his employer’s network, but “he was not thinking multiple steps ahead or considering consequences at the time because he was so depressed.” Id. He admitted that he knew his conduct violated his employer’s rules, but “did not think it was ‘very wrong’ to have adult images on an unclassified [] computer,” asserted that his employer “was spying on him ‘a little too much’ given that the systems were unclassified,” and compared the interview with his employer following the discovery of his conduct to “the Spanish Inquisition.” Id. at 33.

I cannot fathom the train of thought of looking at porn on your phone, thinking, "Man, it'd be nice if I could look at this on a bigger screen. Well, I do have my government-issued computer here..." and then actually putting your storage account on the fucking computer.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

so i peripherally knew a guy back 20 years ago, who was a bit of a dipshit like this. i'll call him "idiot". our connection was peripheral. basically, i was friends with another guy who belonged to this charitable organization that the idiot also joined which had this affiliation with the catholic church. idiot was more or less our age and was doing this 1 year service mission through his church to do volunteer work somewhere in the US and get a little stipend for living expenses + volunteer experience.

most of the people i met through this were the sort of people who would take a summer off to live somewhere unfamiliar and put effort into some community organization there. like sort of "i give a fuck" types. the placements were like giving sandwiches out to the unhoused, helping with after school programs, etc. situations where organizations have no funds for additional people, so they would take whatever help they could get from wherever.

anyway, everybody else who was in this pot of volunteers was generally-speaking agreeable. except idiot. he was the most stereotypical hospitaliano-americano from NYC guy i had ever seen not on an over-the-top TV show. AYY-O! just ridiculous, and very aggressive. this was before Jersey Shore, but he was totally one of those guys. a too-tan meat head.

anyway, i don't know what happened but he got booted out of his placement like immediately, which he insisted was for "some bullshit" without elaborating. so the organization kept him in the office to do office work while it found another placement. apparently this like never happens, but they didn't want to push him out of the program without trying another placement.

anyway, so he's in this little office with quote "nothing to do" for a day, and what does he do? he gets on a computer and looks at pictures of women in bikinis and lingerie. and not just that, he finds a dozen or so that he likes, and PRINTS THEM UP so he can look through them at his desk. this guy is like mid 20s. AYY-O. the charity director who is trying to find him a new placement sees this and kicks him out of the program. the idiot tries to argue that it's not a big deal, because nobody is naked. it's not pornography. the director explains that it is inappropriate and a waste of their slim resources and the idiot calls him a repressed loser and a cheapskate... though is somehow surprised with the director follows through after this line of argumentation and ejects him anyway.

the craziest part of this story is that i am hearing this story FIRST HAND from the idiot and he tells it just like that, completely baffled why he's been fired from a volunteer job and told to go back home.

[–] Poof@hexbear.net 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I had an acquaintance explain to me how he had been fired from his job and all he had done was draw multiple pages of fully erect penis's on his art pad while on duty at his desk. He was also baffled at his dismissal while all of us listening where like why would you do that

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 36 points 5 months ago

He stated that the sexually explicit images were an accumulation of “‘25– 30 years’ worth of pornographic material

Bro uploaded his whole entire goon stash