Someone at the very least needs to teach him to
1. Cover his tracks more,
2. Lie to authority figures about whether or not he intends to commit more crimes.
Poor kid.
Teen GTA VI hacker sentenced to life in a secure hospital
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#22Someone at the very least needs to teach him to 1. Cover his tracks more, 2. Lie to authority figures about whether or not he intends to commit more crimes. Poor kid.
It's so sad we made a society where kids like this exist.
So much wasted potential all because of a society unwilling to accept while this guy got convicted the perps involved with Mt. Gox and SVB never saw the light of day.
Secretly rooting for this kid to get out and topple the government.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
If he's actually "crazy", then would you want to work with him?
This is a bunch of crap. Autistic people are not "crazy", we just don't follow the same asinine logic you "normal" people do. What he did isn't even some great big evil thing, he just hacked some corporations. There are plenty of neurotypical people who do the same thing. Governments too. A decent chunk of the world holds these entities to be pure evil and view attacks against them as totally within reason.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
If he's actually "crazy", then would you want to work with him?
He's not crazy. He's autistic. That makes him very valuable (as can be seen from his exploits). If you can work out what makes him tick, you have yourself a very powerful weapon.
Exploits?
>Lapsus$ uses a variety of attack vectors, including social engineering, MFA fatigue, SIM swapping,[6] and targeting suppliers
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
What he did was illegal . Not just non-neurotypical. You saying something isn't illegal. You're not going to be put in prison (or a hospital) for life for saying something. I see in your other post that you think hacking businesses may be completely justified. That's fine; you can think that. But you understand that there are laws against it, right? And you can expect the laws to be enforced, whether or not you perso…
Yes, illegal, but so is parking in a no stopping zone. Not making excuses for him, but I have a strong reaction to the phrase “sentenced to life” seems like the dead end of a life. Because a video got leaked. Rehab isn’t an option? I'm not a cybersecurity guy (“non-computational life sciences” guy) but seems kid the kid is pretty talented at something.
He's done a lot more than leak a video, perhaps you have a better idea on how he can receive treatment?
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#26>In August, a London jury found that Kurtaj carried out cyberattacks against GTA VI developer Rockstar Games and other companies, including Uber and Nvidia. However, since Kurtaj has autism and was deemed unfit to stand trial, the jury was asked to determine whether he committed the acts in question, not whether he did so with criminal intent. He's highly autistic and currently doesn't seem to understand (or care, al…
As an autistic person, this is fucking terrifying. Someday I might have something to say and people are going to say "oh poor thing, he doesn't understand" and my life is going to disappear. Fascist bullshit. Reminds me of 300 Million Random Assholes Voting on How You Die [1] - [1]: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/r-foxtale-300-millio...
I believe I understand what you mean -- many autistic folks I know have a very specific sense of right and wrong and if something is wrong, it's wrong. If something needs addressed, it needs addressed.
And if the "wrong" thing is wrong in a fascist country it's a danger that you would not be able to stop yourself from speaking out about it or worse, not know it "wasn't OK to talk about" while all the neurotypicals did because of some unspoken body language code you also struggle to accurately read.
So you speak out and the secret police take you away because of what you said. Is this a fair representation of what you were meaning?
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#27Is “secure hospital” euphemism for mental institute? I must have missed when this one was introduced.
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#28>In August, a London jury found that Kurtaj carried out cyberattacks against GTA VI developer Rockstar Games and other companies, including Uber and Nvidia. However, since Kurtaj has autism and was deemed unfit to stand trial, the jury was asked to determine whether he committed the acts in question, not whether he did so with criminal intent. He's highly autistic and currently doesn't seem to understand (or care, al…
Why should I care about the made-up damage claims of a corporate conglomerate that will go on to make billions off GTAⅥ either way?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
As an autistic person, this is fucking terrifying. Someday I might have something to say and people are going to say "oh poor thing, he doesn't understand" and my life is going to disappear. Fascist bullshit. Reminds me of 300 Million Random Assholes Voting on How You Die [1] - [1]: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/r-foxtale-300-millio...
I believe I understand what you mean -- many autistic folks I know have a very specific sense of right and wrong and if something is wrong, it's wrong . If something needs addressed, it needs addressed . And if the "wrong" thing is wrong in a fascist country it's a danger that you would not be able to stop yourself from speaking out about it or worse, not know it "wasn't OK to talk about" while all the neurotypicals…
Yes that's exactly what I'm afraid of
Re: Teen GTA VI hacker sentenced to life in a secure hospital
#30>In August, a London jury found that Kurtaj carried out cyberattacks against GTA VI developer Rockstar Games and other companies, including Uber and Nvidia. However, since Kurtaj has autism and was deemed unfit to stand trial, the jury was asked to determine whether he committed the acts in question, not whether he did so with criminal intent. He's highly autistic and currently doesn't seem to understand (or care, al…
Why should I care about the made-up damage claims of a corporate conglomerate that will go on to make billions off GTAⅥ either way?
it proves the fire tv stick has some use.