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by tester756 910 days ago
If he's actually "crazy", then would you want to work with him?
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He's not crazy. He's autistic. That makes him very valuable (as can be seen from his exploits). If you can work out what makes him tick, you have yourself a very powerful weapon.
Exploits?

>Lapsus$ uses a variety of attack vectors, including social engineering, MFA fatigue, SIM swapping,[6] and targeting suppliers

Exploit

DEED, ACT especially : a notable, memorable, or heroic act

>An exploit (from the English verb to exploit, meaning "to use something to one’s own advantage") is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or a sequence of commands that takes advantage of a bug or vulnerability to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior to occur on computer software, hardware, or something electronic (usually computerized).
This is a bunch of crap. Autistic people are not "crazy", we just don't follow the same asinine logic you "normal" people do.

What he did isn't even some great big evil thing, he just hacked some corporations. There are plenty of neurotypical people who do the same thing. Governments too. A decent chunk of the world holds these entities to be pure evil and view attacks against them as totally within reason.

I can actually see the movie now. :)