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autism doesn't mean he doesn't have emotions

Empathy, not emotions. Empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

I don't know about you, but if I said someone doesn't have empathy I would think that I'm the one lacking it, since I can't possibly imagine understanding that person or their feelings.

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> Kurtaj managed to breach Rockstar, the company behind GTA, using an Amazon Firestick, his hotel TV and a mobile phone. That's quite a feat. > Rockstar Games alone told the court that the hack cost it $5m to recover from plus thousands of hours of staff time. Either the kid is a genius or Rockstar really don't value their security much. Or maybe a bit of both?

If he didn't have a keyboard and typed on his phone like I do, they could also say that he "hacked them using only his thumbs".

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> define "electronic devices." Smartphones and computers, anything with a keyboard and internet connection, and sufficient freedom to go anywhere eon the internet from the device. > (the things Europeans have to use in stores to pay by card I mean those are in every country. PINs are not always needed for credit card purchases but they are for debit card purchases. > but he did demonstrate that he can use a TV for ha…

How can you possibly restrict someone from using electronic devices? This sounds entirely unenforceable without imprisonment.

There has been such enforcement while people are on probation, I don't see why it couldn't be longterm.

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> Kurtaj managed to breach Rockstar, the company behind GTA, using an Amazon Firestick, his hotel TV and a mobile phone. That's quite a feat. > Rockstar Games alone told the court that the hack cost it $5m to recover from plus thousands of hours of staff time. Either the kid is a genius or Rockstar really don't value their security much. Or maybe a bit of both?

From TFA, and given prior hacks, he's very skilled.

Each hack was going into a company Slack server and saying "hell o i am the admin gibe me password". I'm not impressed.

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There was no connection made, GP merely pointed out their observation based on what he has done so far

He's a kid that "found" some pictures of an upcoming game, using dodgy means. But these pictures were publicly accessible, he didn't deceive an actual human to get them. Making them hidden, but public was a mistake by the company. The real reason this happens is that the police doesn't understand, wants to punish the kid ... and youth services has lobbied so that locking up minors DOES NOT REQUIRE PROOF at trial, doe…

The overall treatment of children, especially teenagers, in society is absolutely shocking. Literally they are like slaves. As a child, the family can be the single most tyrannical thing we will ever experience in our lifetimes. It can be a mini totalitarian dictatorship if you are unlucky to have bad parents.

In 100-200 years time from now people will be talking about this, just as we look back to barbaric times in the past now.

Re: Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order

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He is a danger to crappy security and those that fear free thinkers like him. There ought to be laws against locking people like him up. Rockstar said it cost them thousands of hours to recover...they could have asked him, and it might have cost them orders of magnitude less. Rockstar has hired the wrong people, lol.

"they could have asked him" A bit like how you can ask a ransomware group after they've done the hack to fix your computer :D

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autism doesn't mean he doesn't have emotions

Empathy, not emotions. Empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

Autism doesn't preclude empathy at all. In fact, I would say it augments it once the other person's feelings are understood. What's generally lacking is realising the other is feeling in a certain way until it's explained to them or they have otherwise rationalised that feeling. Which, relatively ironically, will never be enough to make a neurotypical person feel empathy.

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As someone with autism, I lack empathy for (most) fake situations. Once I realized therapists and their ilk were lying about sad stories, I stopped having empathy for those sad situations. Ditto for fake news stories. Only mentally unfit people can pass a therapist's tests and be empathetic for people they know do not exist.

I'm not saying what you're saying is invalid, but I do have empathy for people that don't exist. It's called fiction and I find it quite enjoyable.

And that's fine. Does it make anyone less empathetic if they don't though? At least where it matters - where someone else's feelings are involved vs. literally no one else's (since they don't actually exist).
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