# The FBI Downloaded CIA's Hacking Tools Using Starbuck's WiFi 🕶

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/the-fbi-downloaded-cias-hacking-tools-using-starbucks-wifi/68582>\
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**Tags:** tools\
**Created:** [February 5, 2020, 9:42pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/the-fbi-downloaded-cias-hacking-tools-using-starbucks-wifi/68582 "2020-02-05T21:42:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheJoker](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/thejoker/32/22660_2.png) [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 9:42pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/the-fbi-downloaded-cias-hacking-tools-using-starbucks-wifi/68582/1 "2020-02-05T21:42:01Z")

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## An anonymous reader shares a report:

> One of the most interesting details from the [yesterday’s Joshua Schulte trial](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6768407-200204-Schulte-Trial-Transcript.html) involved how the FBI obtained the Vault 7 and Vault 8 materials they entered into evidence yesterday.

[![](https://www.emptywheel.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-18-at-4.58.04-PM.png) ](https://www.emptywheel.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-18-at-4.58.04-PM.png)

> _Because the FBI did not want to download the files onto an existing FBI computer (in part, out of malware concerns) and because they didn’t want to use an FBI IP address, [they got a new computer and downloaded all the files at Starbucks](https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/02/05/the-fbi-downloaded-cias-hacking-tools-using-starbucks-wifi/)._