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Teen Hacked GTA VI Company from Hotel TV

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The title is misleading, he pulled off the hack using his smartphone, the hotel TV was just a monitor. Also giving a hacker a smartphone is as good as giving them a PC, not sure what the authorities were thinking.

Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38723309 (303 comments)

That thread seems to be a bit of a dumpster fire.

Someone there said:

> Is it? I don't see what the big deal is in installing a chrooted Linux environment (or SSH/RDP client to remote into an external machine) in an Android device?

I've skimmed through comments and I have not seen one explaining how to do this. Surely if it is simple then they could say how?

Let's say I am in the room with a TV and Fire stick and I have a phone. How do I install Linux on it?

I don't have any USB cables, wires whatever, I don't have a laptop (if I had a laptop what would be the point anyway...).

Not the Fire stick, that was just a monitor. The question is, how do you install Linux on your smartphone?

There's actually several options, here's one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cuntubuntu...

This is also a decent explanation of that plus another option: https://www.androidauthority.com/install-ubuntu-on-your-andr...

Getting Linux to be the "base" OS is a challenge, but if you don't mind the sandbox Android sticks you in you can do quite a bit as an app. In terms of using it for hacking, you probably can't get raw packet spoofing from that because you're not on the "base OS" level and I'd guess that Android doesn't have a raw packet interface (though let me underline "guess"), but you'd have access to any hacking tool that uses normal sockets and such, which is quite a lot of things.

It was probably his own smartphone which was already equipped with all the tools he needs and a server running somewhere. If it's a new smartphone and you haven't done any preparation at all, then simply installing an SSH/RDP app and renting a VPS somewhere is done in like 10 minutes.

I don't see any reason why you would actually need to root the android device and do everything locally. That may be a fun thought experiment, but it's completely unnecessary in practice.

Just download UserLAnd from the app store.

The indecision by authorities as to whether or not he should be prosecuted reminds me of "infomaster" back in the 90s. The Feds basically let him get away with hacking because they didn't think he was mentally competent. There's a book about him called "At Large: The Strange Case of the World's Biggest Internet Invasion".

To be honest, that's pretty impressive. Kid's going places, Jail, first of all, but, places.

mmm not really, he's fucked due to weapons grade autism.

Yeeep, I think even that is putting it mildly. Dude is well known in the doxxing community, a real piece.

He was recently remanded to a prison mental hospital for an indefinite term up to life.

"A riot is the language of the unheard." -MLK Jr.

how on earth did he manage that

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