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The boy hacked Rockstar using a TV, a fire stick and a phone! I think he deserves a medal, a scholarship and a high payed job as a security consultant, not punishment. Instead they destroy his life for ... being too smart and too talented?! Fuck capitalism!
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.
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.
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
LOL wut? 🤣
What part is confusing you ?
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. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Haven't explained it yet. Still waiting
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.
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