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    British teen from the Lapsus$ gang hacks GTA 6 details in a small town hotel room using an Amazon Fire Stick. Despite compromising British telcos, he’s exposed, caught by authorities, and leaks GTA 6 footage after using the Fire Stick to access cloud services and breach organizations. The tale highlights untapped talent and lack of support in his education system.

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        I’m not sure what you’re getting at. He broke the law, the government investigates and enforces the law.

        What do you expect to happen? Should the government not investigate crimes against corporations? Should corporations be required to pay for the government investigation into a crime perpetrated against them?

        Seems like pretty quickly the governments would only be incentivized to investigate financial crimes against corporations.

        Seems like a worse pay-to-play scheme than the alleged thing you’re mad about.

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      Firestick’s are just re-skinned android, which itself is a linux distro very basically. It’s not extremely difficult to get a working terminal that can install languages and packages like a normal linux distro. I think they even have OOTB support for keyboards/mice. That said, it’s a lot funnier to picture them sitting there with the remote like it’s super smash.

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      You can connect bluetooth devices to it and run a browser, command prompt, etc. I’m thinking he used that type of stuff through the firestick.

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        Even supports keyboard and mouse. Itd be annoying as hell to use, but be usable

        (termux would give you like a full linux experience even)

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      It is nothing more than an internet connected terminal. Once you’re logged in to a server, the firestick is only sending/receiving small chunks of text.

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    Has anyone seen where to check the footage out?? Looks like it’s all been DMCA’d from the majority of the web… I’m not a huge GTA Stan but I kinda wanna see what got leaked!