Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order
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Judge says hacker remains a high risk through his skills and motivation to carry out cyber-crime.

Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker sentenced to life in hospital prison::Judge says hacker remains a high risk through his skills and motivation to carry out cyber-crime.

  • mannycalaveraEnglish
    266·
    11 months ago

    Sounds like he had serious issues in life and wouldn’t likely be able to hold a job or complete a scholarship. Not to mention he’s ruined any form of trust you would need to be a security consultant.

    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

    This doesn’t sound like a kid that accidentally found some loopholes in a website and got lost down a rabbit hole. Instead it sounds like he deliberately knew what he was doing was wrong but didn’t give a shit and was quite happy to blackmail users why threatening to reveal their personal data he had stolen.

    Let’s hope they can reform him over time, poor kid.

    • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.worldEnglish
      625·
      11 months ago

      How do you “reform” mental health. Would you reform van Gogh?

      Would you reform Joan of ark ?

      Pick any genius. It’s called savant. Education

          • StenSaksTapir@feddit.dkEnglish
            11·
            11 months ago

            For me it was the Joan of Arc thing.

            But I think more generally the implied notion that mentally unstable people shouldn’t be helped because of art.

          • mannycalaveraEnglish
            9·
            11 months ago

            The part where you didn’t understand what I said, misinterpreted it so badly, assumed something that wasn’t implied, and went on a rant equating people with dangerous severe mental illness (as in the kid in the article) to people in the creative arts.

            Oh and also the Joan of Arc thing. 🤣🤣🤣🤣