ResetEraVetVIP
Member
Their equivalent of FBI is super advanced.
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Soodanim
Gold Member
FTFY
At 17 you've left secondary education and maybe gotten a job if you're not still in full time education, but in real world years you're still a newborn. You don't always have the life experience to fully understand the gravity of your actions at that age because the kid gloves have been on. They might still be on, unless they decide to take them off.
Don't get me wrong, he's still old enough to know better, but when you're that young there's less of a feeling of having something to lose. He almost certainly didn't think it was going to be this bad. The innocence of youth. Except he isn't innocent anymore, he's guilty as fuck. His life lesson is pulling stunts so public that he's thrown himself into the deep end of repercussions.
Or, alternatively, I'm not giving him enough credit and he's an arrogant little cunt who thought he was an invincible warrior of justice, fighting the good fight on behalf of the likes of those people in this thread that foolishly think you can justify this ethically.
Kenneth Haight
Gold Member
Some of you on here need to go and get yourselves an account on ResetEra so you can all give each other a big hug. Absolute man babies.
I really hope some of you never become parents. Otherwise I feel sorry for the kids if they ever make a mistake. Unforgiving pricks some of you.
Maybe we should set up a go fund me to help out Rockstar with these damages
.“Whatever he gets won’t be enough” wow, wow, so let’s just sentence him to death then is what you’re saying?
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existensmaximum
Member
What a stupid asshole. He may just have ruined his life.
Theft and blackmail of IP potentially worth millions of dollars, he's a kid but clearly smart enough to know about the severity of his actions.
They can't let him off too lightly otherwise the other members of his hacking group will feel encouraged to keep doing what they are doing.
They can't let him off too lightly otherwise the other members of his hacking group will feel encouraged to keep doing what they are doing.
CherryFalls
Banned
Let the kid go, arrest rockstar
FUBARx89
Member
Meh, apparently the same kid has already been arrested before something similar.
Bartski
Gold Member
Twice. Poor baby! Fortunately, extortion and causing millions in damage for clout is cool now. Stick it to the man!
I don't think it was the embarrassment but the selling of proprietary source code and ransom that made this a little more serious than just embarrassment. Having said that I hope the kid just gets a slap on the wrist though, this isn't worth ruining somebody's life over.
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EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
NeoGAF justice warriors probably want to ruin this kids life forever.
ohhhhh, so we made him try to extort a company?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Did some of you not know consequences existed for actions like this or?
They ruined their own life when they continued doing this. If it wasn't Rockstar, any other company like this would do the same thing. Its like saying if I rob a bank and you are saying to the bank "this isn't worth ruining someone's life over" as if the BANK ITSELF is doing it to me or something.
When he choose to do this, they choose this path for his life and I'd argue a slap on the wrist is to show that this is ok, nothing etc. He was already arrested for something like this before, so this is the life they are choosing. Maybe if that company they hacked before took the same measures, he wouldn't have even gotten the idea to hack Rockstar if he understood it was a serious thing or something.
Should arrest number 3 be the one where he is actually held accountable or something? 4? So I'm not saying they need to get life, but they need to get some charge that makes them understand the seriousness of this as clearly that first arrest didn't do shit if we are here yet again with an arrest.
They'll either bail him until he's eighteen and try him as an adult, or they'll send him to a YOI.
He ain't getting off lightly either way.
Also, Oxfordshire? Kid's letting our county down, damn it.
Winter John
Member
We didn't do shit to McKinnon. We wanted to sling him in jail and torture him for 80 years but those Brit snowflakes refused to hand him over.
Tams
Member
There's still young offenders institutes, and then at 18 transfer to prison.
No idea how this will pan out though. Perhaps he'll get a slap on wrist, or perhaps a worse sentence than grooming gangs. Who knows in the bold new Britain.
The muppet blackmailed Rockstar though, so it doesn't look too good.
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darkangel-212559
Banned
I'm autistic. I know many autistic people. We all very well understand the consequences of our actions.
PS You don't need to be only autistic to be a hacker. Stop with the ignorant stereotyping.
On topic. Watch him get hired under house arrest instead of jail.
Rocco Schiavone
Member
His punishment will be playing GTA online 24/7
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PharaoTutAnchAmun
Member
When he is the hacker, Rockstar wil sue him and his co-hackers in to oblivion....
hemo memo
You can't die before your death
Most likely he would rather go to jail than this.His punishment will be playing GTA online 24/7
GermanZepp
Member
Some of you on here need to go and get yourselves an account on ResetEra so you can all give each other a big hug. Absolute man babies.
I really hope some of you never become parents. Otherwise I feel sorry for the kids if they ever make a mistake. Unforgiving pricks some of you.
Maybe we should set up a go fund me to help out Rockstar with these damages
“Whatever he gets won’t be enough” wow, wow, so let’s just sentence him to death then is what you’re saying?
Stealing and blackmail? I can care less for someone who do things like that.
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
He should have doxxed/swatted instead.
Then magically the same tools they used would not work.
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RoadHazard
Gold Member
While I maybe don't think he should get 25 years in prison for this, all the "he's just a kid" replies are weird to me. Yes, he's a kid, but he's not 7. At 17 you know very well what you're doing, unless you've got some mental disability.
MightySquirrel
Banned
R3axi0n
Neo Member
GTA 6 hack: UK police confirm they’ve charged teenager linked with breach | VGC
The 17-year-old was reportedly also involved in a cyber attack on Uber and others…
www.videogameschronicle.com
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
If the cops just slap him on the wrist you aren’t proving anything. You’re just telling the next 17 year old that they’ll get slapped just as hard next time. The amount of damage someone can do online is shocking. You have healthcare , law, financial, and more hosted in the cloud. At what point do they enforce punishments that makes these people think twice? This time it’s Rockstar, what’s next your bank, your hospital? It’ll never cease to be a problem.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
Do you mean to say that one of the most important and millionaire video game companies, who have surveillance, people with computer knowledge and who is one of the most powerful, was hacked by an ordinary teenager?
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