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they want to threaten him with life in prison so they can force him to be a white hat or black hat hacker, aka a government agent hacker.

>>32695
sounds idiotic when he didn't hack anything,he was handed the passwords by the retards at the company themselves,there is nothing to hire.

>>32698
Social engineering is still kind of hacking, or at least one of the more effective ways to bust the security of any system is to ruse the people in charge of it into handing you the keys into their kingdom.

>>32699
Anyone could do that though.

>>32700
You claim that, but how many have successfully pulled it off?

>>32701
Well this guy didn't exactly successfully pull it off.

The craziest part of this to me is the fact that the only reason the leaks are of any consequence is because of the marketing hype Rockstar has intentionally created around their product. GTA is a big deal for all the gamer boys and girls (and nbs) because they want it to be. I wonder if the worst version of this story is true, that the kid didn't actually manipulate anybody and is just a fall guy they are using to market the game in an unconventional way.

He didn't actually hack them, he just got them to give him passwords, and conveniently all he got out of it was some video clips that show off just enough of the game to get people speculating.

>>32699
>>32700
This kind of person is more likely to be hired not as a "white hat hacker" but as someone working on internal security. Things like training employees not to be stupid and give out login credentials. They have a whole department around that. Part of the job may include doing internal "hacks" like cold calling the employees to try to fish passwords out of them, but that's just to look for any weak points so you can fix them.

>>32700
Talking to people is a skill in and of itself, just like programming. If everyone were proficient at conversing, we wouldn't have incels. Social engineering is a real security concern that you need to prepare for, like >>32705 says.

>>32704
>He didn't actually hack them, he just got them to give him passwords
Social engineering is essentially "computer hacking". It's an integral part of the process. Sometimes it's the entire process.
Property goes above human life. This guy will be contained and processed to protect property. His life is meaningless.

the court decided this guy posed too much of a risk to capital and threw him in a padded room for eternity

>>32702
But he did. That's why he's being thrown in jail.

It's more of an indefinite sentence, and it's cuz he said he'll go back to doing it like a dumbass

>>32714
>and it's cuz he said he'll go back to doing it like a dumbass
yeah it seems based but he could do much more if he tried to lay low at first just to get a better sentence

Did the same guy leak the GTA V source code?

>>32695
Yeah the thing about becoming a notorious hacker is that it breaks the anonymity and you can add it to your Resumé/CV which is the strange paradox.