Handlers: How do you treat agents using tech and the Internet to solve their problems?

During my last session, there were two instances of a PC (played by a player who is a notoriously resourceful and clever problem solver) using the internet in order to identify unnatural objects. Minor spoilers for Future/Perfect Part 1 below:

1. Agent took a photo of a >!Dinosaur feather!< and posted the photo on /r/whatisthisthing. I had him make a LUCK roll, he failed, so he didn't get any useful info. 2. Same agent took a photo of a >!Preserved Meganeura Dragonfly from the Carboniferous period!<. This time the player had the good sense not to post it on Reddit but used a reverse image search engine. Once again I had him roll LUCK, this time it was a success, and he got to learn what it was which acted as a springboard to do further internet research.

Now I'm still a fairly new DG handler, though I have plenty of experience as a GM in other RPGs. I have a couple of problems with this:

1. 50% seems like way too high of a success rate for this sort of thing. I think going forward I may treat attempts to do this as LUCK - 20%, maybe even - 40% if it's a real shot in the dark, just to encourage a bit more careful resourcefulness. 2. Depending on the specific approach taken, it seems that there should be some serious OPSEC repercussions here. The Reddit image hosting servers in my game world now have a photo which is actual proof of the unnatural buried within them in a post that probably got like 4 upvotes. But the post is there and it's probably been indexed by Internet Archive, search engines, model training companies, web crawlers, etc. I feel that ideally there should be repercussions that the agent will feel for this act. That being said I think it's highly unlikely for the agent's case officer (or anyone else in DG) to be able to tie the post back to the agent, so I can't simply have the case officer chew him out for his carelessness. 3. The player also asked offhand during the session about the availability of LLMs and other model-enabled tools like OCR during that session. I don't know what he's cooking, but I can honestly say this player is extremely clever and I've seen him run circles around many TTRPG challenges with his resourcefulness. The agent is a computer scientist with a very high INT, and both the player and I are IRL computer scientists, so we have a lot of knowledge on the art of the possible here.

To be clear, I do genuinely enjoy watching this player be clever. I don't want to deny him the ability to use technology that his character would know how to use, and he clearly built the character with this sort of thing in mind. But I'd like to make sure his agent's actions are treated with the seriousness they merit within the context of the Delta Green world. I want him to feel the full consequences—positive and negative—of his actions. If there's some sort of info leak, I may want to tease that out.