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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.
Life for this seems absolutely insane.
Sounds like dude has some stuff to work out mentally
He has autism. It affects the brain in very specific ways for each individual, but in general Executive function is the first thing to go when in stressful situations. You know, emotional regulation and self control? And I also guarantee that the cops and guards were treating him like shit. They LOVE picking on disabled people. I have no doubt most of the charges and incidents were exacerbated by the people in charge.
The dude committed crimes while on bail. Autism doesn’t excuse that, and even if it did, it’s still a problem that needs to be dealt with.
Nothing is being trumped up, here. The kid is just brazen about this.
Ah so he’s a Lemmy user.
I get that, have it as well. Been arrested for it as well.
This kid wasn’t arrested for having autism. It was for brazenly commiting crimes, and even when he was released on bail, he committed even more crimes in police protection.
This is not some poor autistic kid that’s getting picked on by cops, he’s a highly capable hacker expressing a explicit intent to continue to break the law and cause harm to both individuals and corporations.
Never said he was getting picked by cops on or arrested for having autism.
He is a hacker and a thief that has a lot of work to do psychologically
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Umm… look the fuck around? All cops are bastards. Mental health facilities aren’t better. I was a kid in a couple, and worked at one myself. There are good staff, yeah, but there’s also a 99% fucking chance that every kid will encounter a bad one. And there’s a lot of bad ones. If youre lucky theyre lazy and just neglect you. Others have little patience and are likely to yell and chastise during an incident. They’ll do vindictive little things to mentally ill children because theyve had to write an incident report. They’ll taunt and goad kids into being aggressive. They’ll ABSOLUTELY make all kinds of disparaging comments about the kids.
I have seen it all, far too often. Its absolutely rampant.
So zero evidence the cops and guards in this case did anything wrong. Thanks for being honest about lying =)
Going to be honest, I think you need to go back to reddit.
None of what you say seems to be in good faith whereas the person you’re replying to is at least giving personal experiences from both being a kid in that system and having worked in it as an adult.
Downvote haraas and insult me all you want, won’t change the fact that you aren’t contributing to a better community or dialogue.
Or else what? You’ll do something to me? You’ll downvote me?
I’m not going to do anything, I’m just making a suggestion based on your overly aggressive and hostile comments.
I would say it’s rather telling that you just assume someone is going to “do something to you” when they give you a suggestion though.
Might be worth taking a step back from the Internet and figuring out what’s causing you to be such an angry person. Might even help lower your blood pressure.
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Uh oh, you just broke Rule 1 That wasn’t very civil of you.
Observing fact is civil behavior.
Don’t be upset =)
I’d recommend that you both behave with more civility.
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It’s a mental health “life”, not a prison life.
It’s only life if doctors do not approve of their release due to potential danger. No sentence has been given to them yet.
They weren’t even tried yet this is all because of how they reacted while being detained
Chill man. Will do you some good.
You’re literally saying it’s okay they put this kid away for life because he hacked Grand theft Auto and you’re telling me to chill?
Did you read the article?
In my state, you damn sure can get a life sentence for child molestation and rape
Well, sure, but does that mean he should get a life sentence?
No. But you also can’t say I’m going to go straight back to commitmenting the exact same crime asap
He already did it again, didn’t realize this was the one who did it again while on bail.
These sorts of sentences aren’t really “life”, they’re “life until you’re cured.”
ez more vaccines
If vaccines can cause autism, then if you use enough vaccines you can reverse it, right? /s
The hard part of it is that the system is so lame that they are probably going to do more damage to him in turn making him have to stay longer.
Indeed, but if we wait for everything to be perfect nothing will ever get done. Reforms of the system can continue alongside treatment.
I guess we’ll have to just lock him up while we figure out some way of stopping him committing cybercrime. If only there were some way of preventing him from committing this crime that requires access to a computer to commit. I guess he’ll just have to stay trapped in a phyche ward until society can figure this one out.
Sorry for being snarky and sarcastic, I know what you mean and agree with you. My sarcasm is directed more at the judges ruling and your comment is just what sparked me to write it.
It’s not the cybercrime that he’s in the mental hospital over. He’s been physically violent as well.
And just how does one get cured of autism?
You think he’s been charged with autism? Most autistic people aren’t a danger to the people around them. That’s the problem here.
Hacks private companies
Danger to the public
Get off it mate, it’s not like he’s a cop. There’s no danger to you or I.
He was no danger to anyone before being locked up and deprived of liberty, in which case he started acting out as anyone would.
Hacks private companies and threatens to release their users’ data.
Smashes physical stuff and beats up physical people after he’s taken into custody. Note that he hasn’t actually gone to trial yet, so this is what he’s currently in the mental hospital for. You really think “anyone” would start beating people up when taken into custody? Why isn’t everyone doing that?
Yeah I’m not so much concerned for the property he’s damaging, but moreso the act of damaging. That points to instability, violence, and poor impulse control.
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Uhh no he was a danger to people. Actually how did you get down to this comment without reading the top of the branch that already quoted this part of the article?
To people detaining him against his will, not to the public.
Being obtuse in no way advances your argument.
He’s not being obtuse when you’re the one making outlandish claims
Your wording is wrong. It’s a medical life sentence. It would be cleared immediately on doctor approval.
Or the people handling him don’t understand autism?
That’s probably true for some of if not most of them
If he’s unfit for trial doesn’t he wait until he can? That is beyond unjust on every which side unless he is that level of fucked up. What is life like in an NCR-type deal hospital for life?
Is it like a decent group home or where is he being sent to exactly?
It sounds like he is that level of fucked up. Getting violent and breaking shit and literally saying “I’ll fuckin do it again”.
You might try reading the article you posted then, because it says very plainly:
A danger of commiting cyber crimes. You forgot that part. This could be solved with a probation officer and a restriction on technology use. Instead, he’s in a mental hospital. This is ridiculous and a way to weaponize his disability as a warning to others.
Considering he hacked Rockstar because they put him in a hotel room with a land line phone and an Amazon Firestick while in custody for hacking, I’d say he has a serious mental issue here.
Yeah he’s a fucking genius.
I think whoever left him alone with an Internet connection has the serious mental issue.
They did strip him of stuff, he just found the Fire Stick and bought the phone - while on bail for other cybercrimes. The point is he’s determined to commit crimes. You can’t let someone out free in society like this. Meeting up with a probation officer every now and then isn’t good enough for this kind of person. It’s a compulsion. He can’t even mentally stand trial right now.
There are absolutely ways to do so. Hackers are kept in the public under those conditions all the time. This is a modern lynching to serve as an example.
Yes… It’s the same sentence criminally insane murderers get.
People pleading insanity and thinking ‘they get away with it’, has always made me laugh. You might get probation in 20 years but in an asylum, you have no sentence it’s just a matter of if the doctors ever agree to release you.
And people are still going to play the game.
Worse, people will buy that game.
I mean… what is the alternative? He said he’s going to continue hacking once he’s free, so do you think 5 or 10 years in prison will do anything to deter him? It doesn’t sound like it at all.
edit: plenty of downvotes, but nobody is suggesting what should be done instead?
Not sure why this is down voted.
Besides being aggressive and destructive, he declared he will not stop doing crime.
This is not some “hero vs corporations” feel-good story as people seem to think here.
I dunno why people think social engineering has no victims and is harmless. It’s just not the case.
Cybercrime destroys lives. It’s anti-commerce and it can absolutely ruin a small business. Who the victim was does not matter. He openly intends to do it again if ever released so section his ass.
“ruin a small business”.
This is Rockstar. They make billions. All the hype is just free press for them, which is pro-commerce for them and the press.
Yeah, it destroys lives when it’s taken out of proportion for a stupid leak vs. a life sentence. You ruin lives with your nonsense because a billion dollar company doesn’t have decent cyber-security? GTA is completely full of script kiddies in every session. Maybe rockstar needs to get their act together instead of throwing people in jail for doing exactly what is required in game. Where you’re a criminal that hacks tech companies to advance in the plot. In game, it kills people. In real life, nobody was hurt at all.
Rockstar isn’t the only company he hacked and hacking isn’t his only crime. Read the fucking article. The rest of your logic is just a mess. Doesn’t matter how much security Rockstar has. You can’t walk into a mansion and steal something just because the front door is unlocked. And your last point is just so fucking stupid. It’s ok to hack Rockstar because they have hacking in their games? Jesus. I don’t like or even play Rockstar games but you can’t just commit crimes against them and think it’s ok because they have a lot of money.
Of all the arguments people made about the sentencing, this one is the stupidest
Anti-commerce? oh, no! Won’t anyone think of the multi billion dollar corporation?
Maybe they should chop the hands off cyber criminals as a warning to other would be cybercriminals too. In fact, life is too easy for someone who hurts a company, we should just shoot them all immediately