Random Ramblings of a College Student

Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.

Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.

And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?

--Arion was sentenced by a judge. Not Rockstar.

--he'd already been deemed mentally unfit to stand trial for other charges when this happened. That was not Rockstar's doing.

--while he was out on bail, he physically injured people and committed random property damage. This is a large factor in him being considered dangerous to the public.

--he committed blackmail.

--he hacked into the London Police CCTV. You may wonder why this is a big deal. Easy answer: imagine what a stalker could do with one of the most comprehensive surveillance systems in the world. That footage is heavily restricted for a reason.

--he is not in "a prison hospital." He is in a psychiatric rehabilitation center that's designed for detention. I know that probably sounds like splitting nails to make tacks to some people reading this, but there's actually a very big difference between the two--psych rehab aims to actually help people get better while keeping other civilians safe, rather than just tossing somebody into lockup.

--a fellow hacker who was only involved in the Rockstar hack, and who is autistic as well, got 18 months in youth social rehab.

In doing so, the charge actually changed from 'hacking with criminal intent' to 'hacking'. Because he admitted to having intent.

He also hacked into BT (our largest broadband provider), and EE and Orange, two large mobile data networks, and stole customer data.

Reuters article with additional information.

He was sentenced by a Judge.

"The court heard that Kurtaj had been violent while in custody with dozens of reports of injury or property damage."

He hacked Rockstar while on bail, using an amazon firestick, his hotel TV, and a mobile phone. He is highly skilled.

In the same period of time in September 2022 he hacked Revolut and Uber

He broke into Rockstar's slack messaging system and threatened to release source code if they did not contact him.

He'd previously been convicted of hacking BT Group, EE, and Nvidia.

He previously admitted to an offense related to the hacking of London Police cloud storage.

Doctors deemed Kurtaj unfit to stand trial due to his severe autism so the jury was asked to determine whether or not he committed the alleged acts - not if he did so with criminal intent.

A jury found that he commited 12 offenses, including three counts of blackmail, two counts of fraud and six charges under the Computer Misuse Act

The 17-year-old who worked with him on the Nvidia and BT/EE hacks was sentenced to a youth rehabilitation order with 18 months supervision.

I cannot find any article claiming he was sentenced to anything but "life in hospital prison". Furhter research does seem to indicate that means a "high-security psychiatric hospital"

As someone who is active in the cybersec world: the 10M number is not "stolen money" as much as it's the cost of overtime hours and hiring security companies to a) make sure he's out of the system and b) all the leaks are fixed, possibly the purchase of new software and/or overhauling the security infrastructure. For big companies with a lot of network infra this gets real expensive real fast. It's also the combined number for Uber, Nvidia and Rockstar so I can't call it super unrealistic. A bit inflated, maybe.

@prismatic-bell is mostly correct. The physical injury and property damage were in custody, not on bail. The hacking was on bail. He hacked into london police cloud storage, not live CCTV cams.

Happened across a pj library stand, picked up a book. Woman who runs it, sweet mother type with a tischel and all goes "just so you be aware, it has gay romance in it"

I lightly tap my they/them pin

does that content you’re pissed about have anything to do with actual zionism?

"So are you as an antizionist going to post more about antisemitism so that Jews don't feel like Zionism is their only safe space?"

And so the two surgeons filmed a handover after heart surgery and sent it to the Ferrari pitcrew who were told to critique and improve handover process

And from this:

we got this:

The error rate during patien handovers dropped from 30% to 10% with the F1 informed protocol.

I love this!

And it that it wasn't a one and done.

The doctors went to the race tracks to watch the car changes and the pit crews went to the hospitals and watched a live transfer and offered suggestions and they kept working with them to improve.

After there was a successful improvement of the most vital metrics of a handover of a patient from surgery to ICU, the pit crews also worked with other hospitals for other procedures and it's now a whole thing of trying to apply the specialized, streamlined and speedy teamwork and nonverbal coordination of pit crews to other high-risk fields.

So what kind of vibe would you get from being there?

Hunger, prison, deportations

Easy access to food? clothes you like? travel?

Sex education? LGBTQ+? Safety?

Remember that you have nothing of your own. Do you even deserve it?

They also authored the antisemitic work “the protocols of the elders of Zion” which was a forged document they used to spread antisemitic conspiracy theories, blaming the Jews from Russia’s problems; it is the basis for many modern antisemitic conspiracy theories and was also very influential on the Nazis and was widely disseminated by them in Germany. (So never let anyone tell you that violent antisemitism is only a thing on the Right.)