this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2023
946 points (98.0% liked)

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

54577 readers
304 users here now

⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.

Rules • Full Version

1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy

2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote

3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs

4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others



Loot, Pillage, & Plunder

📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):


💰 Please help cover server costs.

Ko-Fi Liberapay
Ko-fi Liberapay

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

The full GTA V source code has been leaked The leak contains GTA V source code and stuff from Bully 2 and GTA VI Leaked in a discord server by a random British guy in the 360 modding community known to get sued by Rockstar multiple times

"Now i am expecting a open source version of gta to arrive soon on linux natively . Tired of playing supertuxcart."

Here is the source. Another one.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 403 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (55 children)

If you're not aware, the hack was performed by Arion Kurtaj, an 18 year old, who has been put in ~~prison~~ a psych ward in a uk prison. He hacked rockstar at a hotel, where he was left with no computers or phones, only to find that the TV had a chromecast, which he used to buy a phone and a keyboard (presumably by selling his monero).

  • He hacked into all major uk telcom providers: EE, BT and Orange.
  • He hacked into nvidia

This kid deserves a 7-8 digits salary as a pentester, not prison; plenty of pentesting companies would hire him in a heartbeat.

Don't get me wrong, he deserves a long and drawn out lesson on morals, but also a stellar salary where he can do what he's doing for the right side.

EDIT: I have made a mistake in my original comment, which has been pointed out. My bad, he's technically in a psych ward in a uk prison, because he's aggressive and unstable. I still stand by what I said (and what I clarified in the comments below), but I wanted to correct the record

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 155 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You have to convince him first it is what he wants to do. He seems very fixated on being a cyber criminal at this time and money is unlikely to sway him.

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 73 points 10 months ago (7 children)

He can learn once he understands the repercussions of his actions. Remember that he's an autistic teenager, he has a lot to learn about life and especially morality.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

He'll learn great lessons in jail! /S

[–] schmidtster@lemmy.world 49 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That’s why he’s in a prison hospital instead. I think they are called psyche wards or mental institutes in some places.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (6 replies)
[–] RobertOwnageJunior@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I think you're vastly underestimating what a big stack of green can do for the morals of an 18 yo.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 79 points 10 months ago

Don't get me wrong, he deserves a long and drawn out lesson on morals,

So do the executives of rockstar and every major game studio.

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 71 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

This kid deserves a 7-8 digits salary as a pentester, not prison; plenty of pentesting companies would hire him in a heartbeat.

I keep hearing this.

Find me any company that will hire someone so unstable and destructive, and I'll show you a company with bad hiring practices.

This is someone you can never count on to do anything they don't want to do. Someone who will destroy things if they don't get their way. Triple letters won't touch him.

Also, let's be clear, a lot of this was social engineering. He didn't do anything impressive, he just did things others wouldn't be brazen enough to do because they didn't want to get caught.

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 32 points 10 months ago (5 children)

This is someone you can never count on to do anything they don’t want to do. Someone who will destroy things if they don’t get their way. Triple letters won’t touch him.

definitely, but people can change

a lot of this was social engineering

people always have a high and mighty mentality when talking about social engineering, most attacks today use some form of social engineering and have for a long time, if not always.

load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments (8 replies)
[–] 520@kbin.social 59 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

This kid deserves a 7-8 digits salary as a pentester, not prison; plenty of pentesting companies would hire him in a heartbeat.

You're forgetting a vitally important part of being a pentester.

Namely that they need to be trusted not to leak billions of dollars worth of trade secrets.

This kid is a prodigy as a black hat, but he'd be an embarrassment as a pentester.

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 27 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I agree with you in principle, you are definitely objectively correct, however people can redeem themselves.

To name two:

  • Mitnick (RIP) started as a black hat
  • Gollumfun started as a twisted criminal
[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I used to work as a pentester. It's an open secret that like a good chunk of people in the industry are former criminals. But former is kind of the keyword. Not only is he doing crime after being arrested and still under surveillance, but he can't even lie and say he won't do it again. The kid is unhireable, at least not until he can get his compulsions under control.

[–] RelentlessArts@feddit.uk 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My GF works with autistic individuals and for a majority of them they simply cannot lie, at least not big lies. He may not even see it as being that wrong (probably does know to some extent that it is wrong), especially with all the (correct) rhetoric that companies are scum bastards obscuring the truth. The kid is indeed unhireable for the time being but he could be helped to understand the morals, ethics and laws surrounding his interests to integrate him into the capitalistic world he finds himself in.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (6 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] rickrolled767@ttrpg.network 54 points 10 months ago (2 children)

He’s talented, but the problem is jobs like pen testing require a LOT of trust to work in. So far this guy has said and shown that he intents on staying in cybercrime rather than doing legitimate work.

As it stands, given how he’s acted, I can’t see a single company that would let him pen test their systems or a red team that would take that risk to their reputation.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 10 months ago (9 children)

I want to bet this dude is a giant asshole. Not sure why people keep making a hero out of him, he sounds like an awful person.

load more comments (9 replies)
[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

As far as I recall he actively seeks to commit cybercrimes and even says so himself.

It's not the first young hacker on the spectrum that has urges to hack stuff.

It's a whole different question when someone is conscious he is doing something illegal and actively seeks to do it.

This is not another Aaron Swartz story imo. It's an autistic individual that doesn't hack out of curiosity but in order to damage businesses, and people or benefit himself.

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (47 replies)
[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 103 points 10 months ago (12 children)

It's weird to me that, in this specific community, people is condemning this kid as a cyber criminal and as someone playing for the "wrong side".

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 57 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No one is condemning him for hacking Rockstar. They're defending the decisions to put him a hospital because he's unstable. It doesn't help anyone having this kind of black hat shit being so public, sloppy, and visibly unhinged.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] RelentlessArts@feddit.uk 46 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just corpo simps being corpo simps from what I can tell.

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I don't see anyone simping for corporations, just not rushing to celebrate or defend someone so obviously unhinged.

Also, the point is not to get caught, and he's extremely brazen about it even when directly under police watch.

There are plenty of other black hats out there that don't act like this. No one is shaking a finger at them. By all means, crack these corporations wide open.

But this guy in particular is not worth raising up.

load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments (10 replies)
[–] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 92 points 10 months ago

Okay guys, looks like the mediafire one has been taken down, Rockstar lawyers are really freaking out

[–] Crow@lemmy.world 77 points 10 months ago

This will finally put mount chiliad conspiracies to rest.

[–] Big_Bob@hexbear.net 62 points 10 months ago

Tired of playing supertuxcart.

michael-laugh

[–] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 10 months ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] AnxiousDuck@feddit.it 49 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A python file named in CamelCase?!

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Anyone got magnet hash so I can seed it?

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

85a4f24753bbbb4db2821bd01a1a06b3c3a8dc1b

[–] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 10 months ago

Your the MVP ⭐

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Apparently there a full 1tb one floating around.

[–] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 10 months ago (4 children)

1Tb torrent. Man, that's gonna take ages.

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This makes me want to download it to snoop around.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)
[–] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As a release engineer for Electronic Arts for 13 years, this looks like to me a copy of either the source folder from Perforce, a devs machine that had synced a stream, or the same from a build machine. It's not uncommon to use batch files and python scripts to reconfigure a workspace to switch workspaces. I see a solution file in there.

I would bet that particular file is an automation script to configure a machine for development.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

Great. Put it on torrents before rockstar files a lawsuit.

[–] Maaj@hexbear.net 33 points 10 months ago

Open source Linux GTA with multiple cities would fuck. I'd set up my first dual boot for that.

[–] juli@programming.dev 33 points 10 months ago

Apparently?

Quoting without source?

[–] neurogenesis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

I couldn't care less about holidays but this right here made my Christmas :D

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's written in Python? Is that why it takes ages to load?

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Probably only the build scripts are written in python

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] feecoomeeq@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I imagine with this code the modders are going to make the game greate for next ~5 or more years. SAMP was pretty popular for quite some time

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

Remember what happened to re3/reVC? Yeah, this won't lead to much.

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Source code of re3/revc is still available, community can preserve this leaked code as well

[–] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Legality is not an issue here. We are not exactly respecting copyright law anyway.

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (6 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›