British teenager behind GTA 6 hack receives indefinite hospital order
Arion Kurtaj, who has acute autism, hacked Rockstar Games using just an Amazon Firestick, mobile phone and hotel TV
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Despite having his laptop confiscated, Kurtaj, carried out his cyber attack using an Amazon Firestick, his hotel television and a mobile phone. He broke into the company’s internal Slack messaging system to declare: “If Rockstar does not contact me on Telegram within 24 hours I will start releasing the source code.”
I just read some dumb fucking shit from the Wayfair CEO telling everyone they need to blend their personal and work life together because no one is rewarded for laziness, or some shit.
removed! This kid right here is a fucking genius and y'all locking him up for life because his intelligence hurts somebody's bottom line. That's the key take away here. Y'all don't want actually smart and inventive people, you want slaves.
This kid just MacGyvered the shit out of a triple-A game studio and absolute best we could do is lock him up for life? Ridiculous. This whole capitalism shit is a fraud.
What was the meme TPM posted yesterday? Deviation from the norm is punished unless it is exploitable?
I said pretty much the same thing to my partner the other day. This poor kid is a god damned genius, and now he’s just wasted potential. I can think of several ways to redirect that energy for the good of mankind and I’m an idiot. So for his potential to be wasted like this seems malicious to me.
I read that he's violent without an internet connection and has expressed that he can't wait to commit more cyber crimes. For sure there's potential but if he doesnt have the capacity to apply that potential in a eusocial manner then unfortunately I don't know if there's a better option for him.
I can think of several ways to redirect that energy for the good of mankind and I’m an idiot
I have to say kudos to you to be able to apply your vast physchiatric knowledge over the internet to diagnose this child and decide what's best for him from one poorly written click-baity article.
So, I’m not a psychiatrist. I am, However, a parent to a child who receives disability for autism. The hacker has also been reported to be autistic. Now I’m not going to talk about how different autism can be from one person to the next, but one of the first things you are taught is to try and redirect their negative behaviors into something more positive.
In this case that could look something like. “Hey, instead of illegally hacking companies. How about you come to work for the government and have a high paying job hacking for us.” You know that sort of thing.
The kid is talented. Sitting in a prison of any kind is wasting those talents. He would still need a lot of supervision in the above scenario. But he’d still be doing what he loves and presumably contributing to society.
because his intelligence hurts somebody's bottom line
let's not pretend that what he did is not theft.
He did a grand theft.
We don't own the games. Can't steal what can't be possessed.
it's not theft. rockstar still has the source code. he just copied it. theft is taking something and depriving the owner of it.
This cases always have two outcomes: psychiatric prison or gvt. secretly hires for cyber war.