>The teenager, who has autism …alleged to have amassed a $14m (£10.6m) fortune from hacking
> The boy's father told the BBC: "I had never heard about any of this until recently. He's never talked about any hacking, but he is very good on computers and spends a lot of time on the computer. I always thought he was playing games."
> We're going to try to stop him from going on computers."
>The BBC has also spoken to the boy's mother, who did not want to comment.
I saw a lot of comments on HN lately about how LAPSUS$ are bad people. But this kid sounds like he has absent, brainless parents who seem intent on defending themselves instead of answering why they reduced their child’s advanced skills into “playing computer games”. Seriously?
Maybe steer them in the right direction? Aka, be a parent?
That doesn’t change the fact that LAPSUS$ are bad people. My mother thinks I’m “very good with computers” because I can fix her printer when she’s having printer issues. What you consider “advanced skills” is vastly different to parents of a different generation that are relatively new to computers.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 17.8 ms ] thread> The boy's father told the BBC: "I had never heard about any of this until recently. He's never talked about any hacking, but he is very good on computers and spends a lot of time on the computer. I always thought he was playing games."
> We're going to try to stop him from going on computers."
>The BBC has also spoken to the boy's mother, who did not want to comment.
I saw a lot of comments on HN lately about how LAPSUS$ are bad people. But this kid sounds like he has absent, brainless parents who seem intent on defending themselves instead of answering why they reduced their child’s advanced skills into “playing computer games”. Seriously?
Maybe steer them in the right direction? Aka, be a parent?