Josh Duggar had hi-tech software installed on his work computer that would prevent his wife from being alerted if he looked at porn, a court heard today.
Self-confessed pornography addict Josh and his wife Anna Duggar in 2013 subscribed to a service named Covenant Eyes which filters and monitors adult internet use.
If he looked at 'objectionable material' the program would send a report to Anna, who was her husband's designated 'accountability partner,' his child porn trial heard.
The company's vice president of technology, Jeff Wofford, told a federal court in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Thursday that clients typically used the service for 'controlling temptation and access to pornography.'
'His [Duggar's] report sensitivity was set to mature teen. It's fairly common, many users use this one,' Wofford told jurors.
Josh Duggar, pictured with his wife Anna, was seen arriving at trial in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Thursday where a court heard that the reality star's computer had software installed that allowed users to look at porn discreetly
Duggar's wife has supported him every day of his trial so far, despite the shocking charges against him
The couple, pictured with six of their seven young children, subscribed to a service in 2013 called Covenant Eyes that monitors adult internet use and would report 'objectionable material' to wife Anna
The mature teen designation would 'certainly not want to permit any pornography access,' he added.
Wofford said Covenant Eyes could further detect if a client was using Tor Browser or peer-to-peer file sharing, which the trial has heard are networks that child porn perverts often use to share vile images.
However, he said that, in the case of Duggar's computer, it could not, because the HP had something installed on it called a Linux partition, a sophisticated piece of software that effectively creates a second separate workspace.
Duggar spent seven days in jail after his April 29 arrest before being fitted with an ankle monitor and bailed into home detention
It's behind that partition - that could only be accessed by the password intel1988, the same password Duggar used for his internet banking – that federal agents found Duggar's stash of child porn, prosecutors have argued this week.
'What would Covenant Eyes catch from the Linux side?' asked Assistant U.S. Attorney Dustin Roberts.
'Nothing,' replied Wolford, stating that his firm's software would have only worked with the Windows operating system on the regular side of Duggar's computer.
Roberts asked the witness if a Linux partition could therefore be used to 'circumnavigate' Covenant Eyes, whose marketing slogan is 'Quit Porn. Live your best life.'
Wolford confirmed that it could.
Famous for appearing in TLC's 19 Kids and Counting, Duggar was charged in April with two counts of downloading and possessing child pornography.
He faces up to 20 years in prison and fines of up to $250,000 on each count if convicted.
Investigators traced child porn images to the IP address to Duggar's now-defunct used car dealership, Wholesale Motorcars, in Springdale, and seized his office HP desktop and iPhone in April
Duggar (pictured after his release from jail in May) allegedly asked federal agents without knowing anything about the nature of the probe: 'Has someone downloaded child pornography?'
Josh and his wife Anna are pictured with six of their kids: Mackynzie, Michael, Marcus, Meredith, Mason and Maryella together. Anna recently gave birth to their seventh child
Prosecutors say Duggar - who has pleaded not guilty - downloaded images and video of girls as young as seven being 'abused, violated and exploited'.
The sickening cache is said to have included files names such as 'Daisy's Destruction', 'Playtoy Sweetie' and 'Pedo Mom'.
This week's trial has heard how the fallen TV star used a 'peer-to-peer' program called BitTorrent in which users search and download files from others while simultaneously making their own files available for sharing.
In May 2019 Detective Amber Kalmer of the Little Rock Police Department used a specialist police program called Torrential Downpour as part of an undercover online investigation to unmask perverts.
She searched for material officers had previously identified as containing child abuse and made several 'digital handshakes' with an IP address in northwest Arkansas.
Kalmer was able to access video footage of girls aged seven and nine being raped by an adult male as well as a cache of 65 images of a young girl of seven or eight being abused and placed in a dog kennel.
Several jurors looked away in disgust as snippets of the sick material was discreetly shown to them on monitors.
The court heard Kalmer tipped off federal investigators who traced the IP address to Duggar's used car dealership, Wholesale Motorcars, in Springdale, and seized his office HP desktop and iPhone.
Some members of Duggar's family members have distanced themselves from him since his arrest, however, his sister Joy-Anna Duggar was seen at the trial with husband Austin Forsyth Thursday
Joy-Anna Duggar Forsyth with husband Austin Forsyth at Thursday's proceedings
Forsyth also showed up to court Wednesday (left) where some of the members of the Duggar clan sat beside Josh's wife Anna on a bench reserved for family members of the accused
Justin Duggar, Josh's 19-year-old brother, leaves court for lunch after Thursday's proceedings at the trial in Fayetteville
After volunteering to speak with federal agents during the ensuing raid and without knowing anything about the nature of the probe, Duggar allegedly asked them: 'Has someone downloaded child pornography?'
He was also taped telling FBI Special Agents Gerald Faulkner and Howard Aycock: 'I'm not denying guilt. I don't want to say if I'm guilty or not,' the court heard.
The father-of-seven's lawyers have argued, however, that multiple people and employees could have used the HP computer and that
