UK's GCHQ Intern Transferred Top Secret Files to His Phone

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> The court was told Arshad had previously admitted two charges of making an indecent photograph of a child in relation to a number of images found between 7 and 23 September 2022.

Surprised this was only mentioned in the final few paragraphs of the article. I wonder what the background check looks like for GCHQ interns.

> Arshad, from Rochdale in Greater Manchester, is said to have transferred sensitive data from a secure computer to his phone, which he had taken into a top secret area of GCHQ on 24 August 2022.

Based on the timeline, it sounds like they searched his residence looking for classified material and came across other illegal material during the search.

> Based on the timeline, it sounds like they searched his residence looking for classified material and came across other illegal material during the search

Its funny that all people that mess with the secret service are sex ofenders. They even tried it with Assange. /s

An intern with previous charges was given access to top secret info?

Are they trying to reenact the DOGE intern thing?

I don't think he had a separate, earlier case? The linked BBC article makes it sound like these photographs were found during the search.

> An intern with previous charges was given access to top secret info?

I mean, what are we doing here ? If everybody starts to ask questions, where do we get ? /s

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