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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.

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[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 75 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.

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 33 points 9 months ago (2 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.

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

definitely, but people can change

Sure, but from what I have read that hasn't happened and he doesn't want to change. He straight up said he will continue to hack if released. He has even hacked in custody.

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He can change if he gets the right treatment or he has a moment of reflection. It's unreasonable to expect a normal person to be the same person 3 years later and even more unreasonable to expect a mentally unstable person to be the same n years later.

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that exactly what is happening?

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

It's not the right treatment if it doesn't work, and if it does work, it could still take ages for it to have a good enough effect.

So yes, but also no. Psychology and psychiatry are difficult because they require trial and error.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

definitely, but people can change

He did get sent to a psych ward instead of prison with that exact hope. IIRC the biggest issue wasn't just the hacks, but that he was extremely violent and showed no remorse whatsoever as well.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Are you kidding me? Aggressive, unstable and destructive seem to be core tenants for the CEOs of many large scale blue chip firms.

If you want actual penetration defense, you absolutely hire the unstable person. I'm not saying you put him or her in the centre desk on the main floor, let him or her work from an environment where they are most comfortable, and one that supports them best.

If you want window dressing, hire the neat and tidy person, who couldn't actually penetrate an Excel sheet.

[–] NotBillMurray@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Or you hire an intelligent, capable, and professional pen tester. They'll find the same holes that the nutcase will, they'll document them, and they'll do it without breaking things.

[–] soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If you don't think MI6 have their grubby hands all over this deciding what to do with the boy you should think again.

He's too risky