The court heard that Kurtaj had been violent while in custody with dozens of reports of injury or property damage.
Doctors deemed Kurtaj unfit to stand trial due to his acute autism so the jury was asked to determine whether or not he committed the alleged acts - not if he did so with criminal intent.
"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."
I'm sorry WHAT?!
He hacked Rockstar from a firestick?
Go down to market, grab cheap prepaid phone, Fire Stick, and a Bluetooth keyboard, and you're off to the desktop races. Pivot in from literally any remote desktop, shell, anything.
A no doubt gifted person who was probably put through torture (as they would experience it) in a prison, now locked away for life because they lashed out.
Big clap for all the big brains there who failed this guy
> He worked with Kurtaj and other members of Lapsus$ to hack tech giant Nvidia and phone company BT/EE and steal data before demanding a four million dollar ransom, which was not paid.
> They also stole directly from individuals through their cryptocurrency wallets.
Its not that easy to have sympathies with such an individual since these are not isolated instances but clear long term pattern, he may excel at one extremely narrow aspect of existence but rest is much less than stellar.
The crimes he did may not mean much to you but clearly law says different, if you don't like it feel free to campaign for a change. Or would you have similar sentiments if he got enraged and somehow managed killed few people? Since your words would still apply.
This is tragic -- I bet this kid could make great contributions with some support.
> The court heard that Kurtaj had been violent while in custody with dozens of reports of injury or property damage.
> Doctors deemed Kurtaj unfit to stand trial due to his acute autism so the jury was asked to determine whether or not he committed the alleged acts - not if he did so with criminal intent.
For sure. Sentencing guidelines and legal tests for criminality are usually very clearly drawn, even if the logic that brought them to conclusion may be flawed. You'll know when you're in and when you're out of their graces independently of any particular referees opinion, once the big decisions over your fate have been made they tend to be strongly deterministic.
The guidelines for mental health and danger to oneself in that context are literally the subjective opinion of a handful of appointed decision- makers who may not all be working from strictly clinical diagnostic criteria (or even training) , but who all do have every motivation to err on the side of caution at your expense, and to do so indefinitely.
Hacks incur legal costs and engineering time to mitigate (even if just to do postmortems) which are both extremely expensive resources. $10 million doesn't seem at all unreasonable for multiple Fortune 500 firms getting breached.
You’re not wrong, but it’s worth emphasising “fortune 500”, because it’s their own fault it costs them that much. Would be a negligible fraction of that for normal companies.
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Doctors deemed Kurtaj unfit to stand trial due to his acute autism so the jury was asked to determine whether or not he committed the alleged acts - not if he did so with criminal intent.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38723309
I'm sorry WHAT?! He hacked Rockstar from a firestick?
So is it style guidelines for BBC to rewrite "quotes" using UK spelling? Here's the report it was lifted from: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-08/CSRB_Lapsus...
Big clap for all the big brains there who failed this guy
> They also stole directly from individuals through their cryptocurrency wallets.
Its not that easy to have sympathies with such an individual since these are not isolated instances but clear long term pattern, he may excel at one extremely narrow aspect of existence but rest is much less than stellar.
The crimes he did may not mean much to you but clearly law says different, if you don't like it feel free to campaign for a change. Or would you have similar sentiments if he got enraged and somehow managed killed few people? Since your words would still apply.
That doesn't sound as just "lashing out".
> The court heard that Kurtaj had been violent while in custody with dozens of reports of injury or property damage.
> Doctors deemed Kurtaj unfit to stand trial due to his acute autism so the jury was asked to determine whether or not he committed the alleged acts - not if he did so with criminal intent.
The guidelines for mental health and danger to oneself in that context are literally the subjective opinion of a handful of appointed decision- makers who may not all be working from strictly clinical diagnostic criteria (or even training) , but who all do have every motivation to err on the side of caution at your expense, and to do so indefinitely.
Were these actual costs or typical made up bullshit?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38723309