A former college student from the Chicago area was convicted Monday on charges relating to the student’s attempt to provide material assistance to ISIS, authorities said.

Thomas Osadzinski, a 22-year-old former student at DePaul University, was arrested in 2019 after developing computer code that would allow ISIS to skirt software blocking it from spreading propaganda, prosecutors said.

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