There are also extensive file system logs indicating a history of use. That was faked too?
And the IRC logs, those are fake?
Come on man.
Extensive file system logs are also easy to generate. They could also be legitimate access logs but the VM itself was compromised by the CIA.
IRC logs are literally a text file. It would be extremely easy to fake those as well.
Do you really think the CIA is incapable of doing something like this? Hell, if I were able to obtain the password used to encrypt the VM (easily within the realm of possibility with CIA resources) I could do each one of these things myself.
The CIA has many extremely clear motivations to set this up, and they absolutely have the means to do so. They have also in the past been caught doing far, far worse. In addition the Vault 7 leaks contain instructions for doing exactly what many suspect here -- planting something like CP covertly in order to frame someone.
Come on, man.
There was a case, I do not remember in what country where a guy was accused of child pornography because of his IP address and later was found that someone in police made a typo and they had the wrong IP.
Maybe the traffic logs are not enough to put you in jail but the accusation itself could destroy you and your family.