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.

  • mannycalavera@feddit.ukEnglish
    224·
    9 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
      528·
      9 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
            9·
            9 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.

            • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              9 months ago

              Savants are on the spectrum but are genius. You cannot remove one without the other. The reason they are so brilliant is because part of the brain has been sacrificed to increase another part.

              Obviously treatment is still good but you can’t change it

          • mannycalavera@feddit.ukEnglish
            9·
            9 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. 🤣🤣🤣🤣