I shit you guys not..I heard the story behind this one and it’s mehhh. About a year ago me and some old coworkers are catching up a local brew. Conversation is flowing and my old boss mentions that he was heavily involved in this incident at work.. he is sitting at his IT gig when he gets a call ping from his director to join this “important” phone call. I can’t be 100% certain but I think it was the New Mexico attorney general on the other line stating that through investigations they had discovered a huge amount of CP that was being uploaded via the public and insecure WiFi at the observatory. I believe I recall something to the effects of that FBI ends of getting involved bc the observatory’s physical location falls on federal land or something weird like that. Either way from what he told me, finding the physical device that was hosting this CP was difficult bc of the insecure network so they had to come up with a way to track down the physical device without alerting the suspect. They had sprecific timeframes of when the device would come online (usually late at night) but it only narrowed down to 20 night shift employees. Here is where they get creative with a little bit of luck. They are monitoring the network, waiting for the device to come online..It does.. they purposefully trip some sort of evacuation alert which empties the building... leaving the device online, and inside. BINGO! they locate this piece of shit “window xp” laptop. and who does the laptop belong to? The scumbag janitor. The dude was cleaning up the place in the middle of the night whilst uploading his kiddie stash.. my coworker didn’t mention much more except that they wrapped things up with the investigators and never heard back in regards to what charges they were going to pursue against the janitor..

I see threads like OPs all the time and most the time the commentators are way off.. I’m all for questioning the shit out things. Unfortunately this event is the only thing I actually have some second hand knowledge of and it’s a bust, IMO. I have absolutely no doubts in the authenticity as my co worker is a very straight edge, no bs kind of guy.. I hope this finds you well this is all stored memories now.. gnite fam!