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The 18-year-old Lapsus$ hacker who played a critical role in leaking Grand Theft Auto VI footage has been sentenced to life inside a hospital prison, according to a report from the BBC. A British judge ruled on Thursday that Arion Kurtaj is a high risk to the public because he still wants to commit cybercrimes.

In August, a London jury found that Kurtaj carried out cyberattacks against GTA VI developer Rockstar Games and other companies, including Uber and Nvidia. However, since Kurtaj has autism and was deemed unfit to stand trial, the jury was asked to determine whether he committed the acts in question, not whether he did so with criminal intent.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

No one gets "cured" of autism.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Not of autism damnit. His desire/inability not to continue to commit crimes.

Don’t try to twist me

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I feel like just saying this is autism, is insulting to people with autism? The violent acts the article said he did can't just be attributed to autism.

Like the OP wants to compare this to law enforcement crimes where it's about what someone has done, whereas this is about medical hospitalization because of what someone is currently doing

Like he's an active, physical threat. The cybercrimes are very secondary to what is going on.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I'm getting bothered by this too. My brother had a pretty bad case of autism, he suffered from hard-to-control anger issues, but he learned how to keep those outbursts from causing damage or harming the people around him.

Maybe this guy can learn to control himself, maybe he can't, autism is an extremely broad and varied condition. But either way, it's not unreasonable to keep him in a hospital until he's safe.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cured of the desire to commit further crimes. Not cured of autism.

How exactly they'll determine that, I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Will probably wait until they're at least smart enough to lie about not wanting to commit more crimes. Maybe then they'll be mentally fit enough to stand trial, but I'm not sure.