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> This guy is as much of a "cyber security threat" as your typical socially-awkward gamer teenager, of which we have plenty of The following quote seems to ind
by CaptainOfCoit 3y ago
> This guy is as much of a "cyber security threat" as your typical socially-awkward gamer teenager, of which we have plenty of
The following quote seems to indicate that the skills of this individual is much sharper than "typical socially-awkward gamer teenager":
> Kurtaj managed to breach Rockstar, the company behind GTA, using an Amazon Firestick, his hotel TV and a mobile phone
- Nextgrid 3y agoIt doesn't take any skill to install a chrooted Linux environment or RDP/SSH client on a Fire Stick or Android phone, and said skill is orthogonal to hacking skills that could be deemed dangerous to society at large. The fact that this is explicitly brought up smells like they're trying to make this guy sound much more dangerous & evil than he really is. After all, had he discovered/used zero-days or developed exploits, that would be a real talking point, but if the only thing they've got is "he managed to get a shell on an android device" this smells of clutching at straws.
- sensanaty 3y agoAll that means is that he used his phone and another android device (the fire stick) + the TV as a monitor, to access whatever remote machine he has via SSH, not exactly rocket science And that's the point, the propaganda machine is working overtime to paint the kid as some horrifically dangerous criminal because he exposed the clowns in power that easily could've pdevented all this.