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by renegade-otter 911 days ago
"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...

4 comments

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.
That doesn't really get you much vs just using the phone. Bigger screen and notional multitasking I guess
Evasion of surveillance of his phone's internet usage?
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.
At this point, they really need to start leveraging this man's skills for good or *lawful* evil.
Give this man freedom and sic him on Moscow's infrastructure as penance. They have no chance.
The ends justify the means?
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.