Federal Cybersecurity Director Found Guilty on Child Porn Charges

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http://www.wired.com/2014/08/federal-cybersecurity-director-guilty-child-porn-charges/

By Kim Zetter
Threat Level
Wired.com
08.26.14

As the acting cybersecurity chief of a federal agency, Timothy DeFoggi 
should have been well versed in the digital footprints users leave behind 
online when they visit web sites and download images.

But DeFoggi—convicted today in Maryland on three child porn charges 
including conspiracy to solicit and distribute child porn—must have 
believed his use of the Tor anonymizing network shielded him from federal 
investigators.

He’s the sixth suspect to make this mistake in Operation Torpedo, an FBI 
operation that targeted three Tor-based child porn sites and that used 
controversial methods to unmask anonymized users.

But DeFoggi’s conviction is perhaps more surprising than others owing to 
the fact that he worked at one time as the acting cybersecurity director 
of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. DeFoggi worked for 
the department from 2008 until January this year. A department official 
told Business Insider that DeFoggi worked in the office of the assistant 
secretary for administration as lead IT specialist but a government budget 
document for the department from this year (.pdf) identifies a Tim DeFoggi 
as head of OS IT security operations, reporting to the department’s chief 
information security officer.

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