The mysterious 11-day closure of a New Mexico solar observatory stemmed from an FBI investigation of a janitor suspected of using the facility’s wireless internet service to send and receive child pornography, federal court documents showed on Wednesday.
The warrant issued by a U.S. magistrate in Las Cruces, New Mexico, showed that on Sept. 14 agents removed from the man’s home three cell phones, five laptops, one iPad, an external hard drive, 16 thumb drives, 89 compact flash disks and other
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-mexico-observatory/new-mexico-observatory-closure-stemmed-from-fbi-child-porn-probe-documents-idUSKCN1M001P
Relevant to our investigation due to the fact this might be some sort of main hub (CP).
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carmencita ago
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sunspot-solar-observatory-new-mexico-search-warrant-reveals-child-pornography-investigation-2018-09-19/
Officials said Sunspot's one-of-a-kind telescope produces some of the sharpest images of the sun available in the world. Data from observations done at Sunspot is sent to New Mexico State University servers and can be used by researchers around the world.
some o the sharpest images of the sun available in the world. Is that what happened? What did they see? If they had taken all of those things out of his house and have evidence of CP then why have there not been any charges. some of the sharpest images............
Lord_Voldevoat ago
Yep. Maybe he had seen something and they made sure he has no backups
carmencita ago
My thoughts as well. Possibly there will be more news, but I have a feeling this is the end of the story. A total drop off of events as usual. Is that going to be all she wrote? I hope not.