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Teen GTA VI hacker sentenced to life in a secure hospital
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this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2023
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You might try reading the article you posted then, because it says very plainly:
A danger of commiting cyber crimes. You forgot that part. This could be solved with a probation officer and a restriction on technology use. Instead, he's in a mental hospital. This is ridiculous and a way to weaponize his disability as a warning to others.
Considering he hacked Rockstar because they put him in a hotel room with a land line phone and an Amazon Firestick while in custody for hacking, I'd say he has a serious mental issue here.
Yeah he's a fucking genius.
I think whoever left him alone with an Internet connection has the serious mental issue.
They did strip him of stuff, he just found the Fire Stick and bought the phone - while on bail for other cybercrimes. The point is he's determined to commit crimes. You can't let someone out free in society like this. Meeting up with a probation officer every now and then isn't good enough for this kind of person. It's a compulsion. He can't even mentally stand trial right now.
There are absolutely ways to do so. Hackers are kept in the public under those conditions all the time. This is a modern lynching to serve as an example.
Yes.. It's the same sentence criminally insane murderers get.
People pleading insanity and thinking 'they get away with it', has always made me laugh. You might get probation in 20 years but in an asylum, you have no sentence it's just a matter of if the doctors ever agree to release you.