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"Out on bail for allegedly hacking the hardware company Nvidia, Kurtaj, prosecutors say, pulled off the GTA heist while staying under police protection at a Tra
by renegade-otter 3y ago
"Out on bail for allegedly hacking the hardware company Nvidia, Kurtaj, prosecutors say, pulled off the GTA heist while staying under police protection at a Travelodge hotel. Without his computer, he somehow managed to hack into Rockstar using his smartphone, an Amazon Firestick, and the TV in his hotel room."
Oh? I will allow it.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/12/teen-hacked-grand-theft-auto-vi-company-from-hotel-tv.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/12/teen-hacked-grand-th...
- screye 3y agoAt this point, they really need to start leveraging this man's skills for good or *lawful* evil.
- renegade-otter 3y agoGive this man freedom and sic him on Moscow's infrastructure as penance. They have no chance.
- mulmen 3y agoThe ends justify the means?
- mhh__ 3y agoAssuming its not completely wrong that to me sounds something like that he just had the files stored somewhere. That being said travelodge Wi-Fi is so bad, maybe the only way would've been actually doing the job.
- onion90 3y agoI think I read somewhere (can't find the source at the moment) that he mainly used his existing access (to slack?) from his phone and didn't actually do much hacking at that point.
- sh1mmer 3y agoAfter reading this I assumed he used some kind of remote server he had access to. Eg phone is the Bluetooth keyboard, fire stick provides an internet connection and a browser, and remote server provides the full Linux environment to do whatever actually hacking with.
- calamari4065 3y agoThat doesn't really get you much vs just using the phone. Bigger screen and notional multitasking I guess
- lupusreal 3y agoEvasion of surveillance of his phone's internet usage?