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Teenage Grand Theft Auto 6 hacker given an indefinite sentence in a secure hospital due to his 'intent to return to cybercrime as soon as possible' (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 10 months ago by mike591@kbin.social to c/gaming@kbin.social

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Arion Kurtaj was a "key member" of the Lapsus$ gang that also hacked Nvidia, Samsung, and Microsoft.

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[–] Whiskeyomega@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As always with the Crown Prosecution service in the UK they love to bully and make an example of Autistic people. Only added by corporation running the court system, The CPS' Prosecution barristers are known to enjoy a life of luxury and gifts from them but you cant touch any of it.

[–] peter 1 points 10 months ago

What do you think they should have done here? Sent a highly autistic teenager to prison? Let him off completely with no punishment?

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Following an assessment by a psychiatrist, however, the judge in the case determined that Kurtaj was unfit to stand trial, and so the jury was asked only to determine if he had actually committed the hacks, but not whether it was done with criminal intent.

I'm curious what "unfit" means here.

[–] anon2481@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

His skills are crazy impressive. I wish there were some way to point it toward a productive path.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The UK is perma-imprisoning their subjects for futurecrime and that is dystopian as hell.