this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
239 points (96.9% liked)

Technology

59402 readers
3121 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
239
Former soldier searched Google, Reddit for spying tips, prosecutors say — Investigators say they found a document on the man's computer titled: “Important Information to Share with Chinese Governme... (taskandpurpose.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
40 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Former soldier searched Google, Reddit for spying tips, prosecutors say — Investigators say they found a document on the man's computer titled: “Important Information to Share with Chinese Governme...::A document titled “Important Information to Share with Chinese Government" was allegedly found on the former soldier's computer.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Schmidt studied Mandarin and was a spy handler, performing surveillance, interrogation and advanced psychological operation strategies

The saddest part is that a person in his position didn't even have the knowledge to not link his treason Gmail account to his day to day Gmail account.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Gmail account 1 was subscribed to in the name of “Joe Schmidt.” In January 2018 and April 2019, SCHMIDT provided Gmail account 1 to the Army as his email address. Gmail account 1 also has a Google account associated with it. Gmail account 2 was subscribed to in the name of “Joey Schmidt” and lists Gmail account 1 as the recovery email address for the account. According to records obtained from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, SCHMIDT used Gmail account 2 to make travel reservations for his trips to the PRC

It's literally worse his (Joseph Schmidt) alias was Joey Schmidt. Then from the email the army has on record as being him he does this:

SCHMIDT used Gmail account 1 to send the following email to the pubic email address for the Chinese Consulate in Istanbul: Hello, My name is Joe Schmidt. I am a United States citizen looking to move to China. I currently reside in Istanbul, and am trying to set up an appointment at the consulate in Istanbul. I also am trying to share information I learned during my career as an interrogator with the Chinese government.