Teen GTA VI hacker sentenced to life in a secure hospital
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#2"Kurtaj leaked 90 videos of GTA VI gameplay footage last September while out on bail for hacking Nvidia and British telecom provider BT / EE. Although he stayed at a hotel under police protection during this time, Kurtaj still managed to carry out an attack on Rockstar Games by using the room’s included Amazon Fire Stick and a “newly purchased smart phone, keyboard and mouse,” according to a separate BBC report. Kurtaj was arrested for the final time following the incident."
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#3>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, also a possibility) that committing cybercrimes are something you shouldn't do. The metric for keeping him in the secure hospital is based on him wanting to return to committing cybercrimes.
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#4Mmm... sounds like they're scared of what could happen if he fell into the 'wrong' hands.
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#5Mmm... sounds like they're scared of what could happen if he fell into the 'wrong' hands.
Maybe they should give him something to do and hire him themselves.
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#7>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...
Re: Teen GTA VI hacker sentenced to life in a secure hospital
#8Mmm... sounds like they're scared of what could happen if he fell into the 'wrong' hands.
Maybe they should give him something to do and hire him themselves.
This. I see talent, with issues. Release em with conditions, a job, handlers and some incentive to move us forward technically instead of wasting this incredible talent.
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#9"Kurtaj leaked 90 videos of GTA VI gameplay footage last September while out on bail for hacking Nvidia and British telecom provider BT / EE. Although he stayed at a hotel under police protection during this time, Kurtaj still managed to carry out an attack on Rockstar Games by using the room’s included Amazon Fire Stick and a “newly purchased smart phone, keyboard and mouse,” according to a separate BBC report. Kurt…
Industrious and persistent, will give him that.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe they should give him something to do and hire him themselves.
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.