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DOE Employee Fired for Uploading 187,000 Porn Images

10/17/2025

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Story summary

A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) employee's security clearance was revoked after uploading more than 187,000 pornographic images to government servers.
The images were collected over 25 to 30 years; the employee believed DOE-issued computers had partitions to prevent backing up personal files.
He moved files from his phone because of a small screen and did not think it was wrong to have adult images on an unclassified computer.

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Story summary

A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) employee's security clearance was revoked after uploading more than 187,000 pornographic images to government servers.
The images were collected over 25 to 30 years; the employee believed DOE-issued computers had partitions to prevent backing up personal files.
He moved files from his phone because of a small screen and did not think it was wrong to have adult images on an unclassified computer.