[HN Gopher] Teen GTA VI hacker sentenced to life in a secure hos...
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Teen GTA VI hacker sentenced to life in a secure hospital
Author : gurgunday
Score : 13 points
Date : 2023-12-21 20:21 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| gurgunday wrote:
| "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."
| username135 wrote:
| Industrious and persistent, will give him that.
| thomond wrote:
| > newly purchased smart phone, keyboard and mouse
|
| Why on earth would they allow him these things?
| I_Am_Nous wrote:
| >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 cyber _crimes_ 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.
| MountainMan1312 wrote:
| 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...
| AnimalMuppet wrote:
| 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 personally think the laws are justified (or even right)?
|
| You may think in terms of civil disobedience. That's your
| choice if you want to go that way. But that's _your
| deliberate choice_ , not just some random thing you do
| ruining your life.
| vibrio wrote:
| 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.
| bithive123 wrote:
| I'm not sure how you go from being autistic and having
| something to say to being disappeared by fascists. Unless the
| thing you might want to say is "I intend to continue
| committing crimes"
| erickj wrote:
| "During Thursday's hearing, the court heard Kurtaj "had been
| violent while in custody with dozens of reports of injury or
| property damage," "
|
| This is why he was committed, not because he hacked Rockstar.
| Lesson 1, don't commit ransom; lesson 2, failing lesson 1,
| don't get caught; lesson 3; failing lesson 2, don't commit
| dozens of violent acts while in custody
| jaggs wrote:
| Mmm... sounds like they're scared of what could happen if he fell
| into the 'wrong' hands.
| karmakaze wrote:
| Maybe they should give him something to do and hire him
| themselves.
| tester756 wrote:
| If he's actually "crazy", then would you want to work with
| him?
| MountainMan1312 wrote:
| 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.
| jaggs wrote:
| I can actually see the movie now. :)
| jaggs wrote:
| 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.
| chaoschicken wrote:
| 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.
| BugsJustFindMe wrote:
| Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38723309
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