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The 18-year-old Lapsus$ hacker who played a critical role in leaking Grand Theft Auto VI footage has been sentenced to life inside a hospital prison, according to a report from the BBC. A British judge ruled on Thursday that Arion Kurtaj is a high risk to the public because he still wants to commit cybercrimes.
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.
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Life in prison to protect corporate/government profits and secrets.
Humanity makes being a misanthrope mighty appealing.
It’s only life if he does not change his ways. If they can help him to learn to cope, and not to want to continue to commit violence and crimes, then he will be set free.
Otherwise, you’re just running loose a violent person who has said that they will continue to do their crime
But I’m curious, what would your ideal solution be?
Ideal solution under this system? I have no faith in or respect for this system. This is what they do.
If humanity got its head out of its ass, stopped playing the “GIMME IT ITS MINE” game against itself, human information belonged to humanity, and the only secrets that need be kept are for truly dangerous technologies held solely by a government accountable to its people, he wouldn’t need to be in jail.
But this kid is threatening the intellectual PRIVATE PROPERTY of our owners. And in our dystopic civilization as we’ve made it, that means he has to go away.
Okay, since you seem intent on just screaming into the void.
It is that way—>
Neat. Happy Holidays.
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The use of “sentenced to life” here is one of the most blatant click/ragebait headlines I’ve seen in a while. And looking at the comments, people are eating it up.
He has not been sentenced to life. He’s in a hospital until deemed fit to release, because he’s destroying property, injuring people, and declaring a desire to return to crime.
Yeah, it’s funny when it’s Rockstar, less so when it’s your social media or bank. If he can’t bring himself to at least commit to saying he won’t do something illegal just to get through court, then his lack of self control speaks to someone who’s going to do some shit and wind up arrested again.
If the staff can get him to calm down enough to stand trial, he’s out.
Also, remember he was already put on bail once:
A mental health assessment used as part of the sentencing hearing said he “continued to express the intent to return to cyber-crime as soon as possible. He is highly motivated.”
The jury was told that while he was on bail for hacking Nvidia and BT/EE and in police protection at a Travelodge hotel, he continued hacking and carried out his most infamous hack.
Despite having his laptop confiscated, Kurtaj managed to breach Rockstar, the company behind GTA, using an Amazon Firestick, his hotel TV and a mobile phone.
The dude hacked Rockstar while in police custody for hacking other companies. They were transporting him and stopped for the night. They locked him inside a hotel room after clearing out anything that he could potentially use to hack. But they missed an Amazon Firestick in the back of the TV. Using that and his room phone, he hacked Rockstar, then when he was caught he told police he’ll do it again as soon as he’s released.
Yeah, the dude is compulsive. It’s an obsession for him.
They won’t be able to stop him. He literally needs that cube they put magneto in.
Imagine what the MI6 or CIA could make out of him. He hacked Rockstar using a firestick, imagine what he could do when given the right tools. This is a terrible waste of skill.
A Fire Stick is just a small computer, hacking with a computer is normal.
A calculator is also a small computer. Can you hack with that?
He has been violent repeatedly, and continues to express desire to commit cyber crimes.
What would your solution be because right now it’s putting him in a hospital to get help?
Life for this seems absolutely insane.
I don’t think the kid will actually serve it out in prison though. The primary issue here seems to be that the kid is actively saying they will commit more crimes. No matter the crime, you can’t really give a light sentence to someone telling you, in a court of law, that they will do it again.
The ideal would be that they rehabilitate him until he’s able to be safely released with no fear of repeat offense, or at the very least, until the kid is smart enough to lie.
No matter the crime, you can’t really give a light sentence to someone telling you, in a court of law, that they will do it again.
Dude’s unfit to stand trial.
Dude’s unfit to be loose in society. Doesn’t leave a lot of options.
I dunno, he’s seem to do pretty good things thus far.
But that’s just my independent viewpoint.
Article says he’s been breaking stuff and hurting people while in custody. This isn’t just about GTA.
Good call. Life in a psyche ward.
Until he stops hurting people. Criminy, is nobody reading more than just the headline?
It’s not prison, it’s some sort of prison hospital. But still, life is the exact opposite end of the spectrum compared to a light sentence. Like you said, rehabilitation should be the goal, and imposing life sentences on 18 year olds is not how you make that happen.
He only got a life sentence because he made corporations look bad IMO. Not because of him saying he’d do it again.
It’s not actually a life sentence, it’s a sentence until he is cured.
No one gets “cured” of autism.
Not of autism damnit. His desire/inability not to continue to commit crimes.
Don’t try to twist me
Cured of autism?
No, the desire/inability to not continue to commit crimes.
