India, Oct. 17 -- A US Department of Energy (DOE) employee lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to his work laptop. The department found that he had attempted to store his personal porn collection on the device after they were alerted to a large backup on the government network.

The incident happened in March 2023, and his security clearance to office materials, including nuclear information, was revoked. A year later, in 2024, an Administrative Judge determined that his authorisation to the network "should not be restored."

The employee claimed that he wanted to use images collected over the last 30 years as training data for an AI-image generator. According to a DOE report on the incident, the man ...