[renegade-otter]

"Out on bail for allegedly hacking the hardware company Nvidia, Kurtaj, prosecutors say, pulled off the GTA heist while staying under police protection at a Travelodge hotel. Without his computer, he somehow managed to hack into Rockstar using his smartphone, an Amazon Firestick, and the TV in his hotel room."

Oh? I will allow it.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/12/teen-hacked-grand-th...

[sh1mmer]

After reading this I assumed he used some kind of remote server he had access to. Eg phone is the Bluetooth keyboard, fire stick provides an internet connection and a browser, and remote server provides the full Linux environment to do whatever actually hacking with.

[calamari4065]

That doesn't really get you much vs just using the phone. Bigger screen and notional multitasking I guess

[lupusreal]

Evasion of surveillance of his phone's internet usage?

[onion90]

I think I read somewhere (can't find the source at the moment) that he mainly used his existing access (to slack?) from his phone and didn't actually do much hacking at that point.

[screye]

At this point, they really need to start leveraging this man's skills for good or *lawful* evil.

[renegade-otter]

Give this man freedom and sic him on Moscow's infrastructure as penance. They have no chance.

[mulmen]

The ends justify the means?

[mhh__]

Assuming its not completely wrong that to me sounds something like that he just had the files stored somewhere.

That being said travelodge Wi-Fi is so bad, maybe the only way would've been actually doing the job.