He will remain at a secure hospital for life unless doctors deem him no longer a danger.
>He will remain at a secure hospital for life unless doctors deem him no longer a danger.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67663128
An 18-year-old hacker who leaked clips of a forthcoming Grand Theft Auto (GTA) game has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order.
Arion Kurtaj from Oxford, who is autistic, was a key member of international gang Lapsus$.
The gang's attacks on tech giants including Uber, Nvidia and Rockstar Games cost the firms nearly $10m.
The judge said Kurtaj's skills and desire to commit cyber-crime meant he remained a high risk to the public.
He will remain at a secure hospital for life unless doctors deem him no longer a danger.
The court heard that Kurtaj had been violent while in custody with dozens of reports of injury or property damage.
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 mental health assessment used as part of the sentencing hearing said he "continued to express the intent to return to cyber-crime as soon as possible. He is highly motivated."
>nano-stiffener
>Roivant's major institutional investors—including Morgan Stanley, Viking Global, and BlackRock, the very firms he criticizes by name—are among its largest stakeholders
>If Rockstar does not contact me on Telegram within 24 hours I will start releasing the source code.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guccifer
https://theintercept.com/2023/01/15/guccifer-interview-hacked-clinton-emails/
Guccifer, the Hacker Who Launched Clinton Email Flap, Speaks Out After Nearly a Decade Behind Bars
>One can also assume that they sodomized the remains of dead Jewish men and boys too.
by Sha'i Ben Tekoa
>Woman killed by falling 66-foot Christmas tree on Belgian market square
>Famous people
>we're at war
It appears that France is withdrawing from Op Prosperity Guardian and will be conducting their own escort operation.
US coalition is falling apart with rumors France is leaving to go protect French ships while DoD has virtually abandoned US ships idle right NOW within Houthi missile range.
https://twitter.com/johnkonrad/status/1737805821453414817
US Navy says they don’t have enough warships to start Operation Prosperity Garden
US built 24 littoral combat ships but - for good reason - isn’t using them.
If the LCS cannot defend a merchant ship against Hoothi drones, how is it going to defend itself in combat?
Aren’t the Houthis a relatively minor actor operating on the littorals?
Isn’t this exactly the type of threat the LCS was built to manage?
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/12/20/a-supposed-haven-in-sudan-falls-to-a-genocidal-militia
A supposed haven in Sudan falls to a genocidal militia. Many worry Sudan could end up like Libya, split into chunks controlled by rival factions. It could get even worse. The RSF may try to seize much more of the country, perhaps all of it.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/12/20/eu-strikes-major-deal-to-reform-migration-policy-after-three-years-of-bitter-debates
Member states and the European Parliament struck on Wednesday a major deal to reform the bloc's migration policy, capping off a three-year-long ambitious effort that at times seemed doomed to fail.
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/12/20/a-supposed-haven-in-sudan-falls-to-a-genocidal-militia
A supposed haven in Sudan falls to a genocidal militia
Spain has apparently rejected a US request to join Operation Prosperity Guardian.
>Dave Limp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazar_hypothesis_of_Cossack_ancestry
Ukrainian Cossacks descended from Slavicised Khazars. With traces in the 17th century, it was propagated in the 18th century as an element of the legitimization of the Ukrainian Cossack autonomy. In particular, it was put forth in the Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk. Its origin may be traced to the contemporary Polish historiography.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Pylyp_Orlyk
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Pylyp_Orlyk
It is sometimes called the First Constitution of Ukraine.
The preamble briefly discusses Cossack history, their Khazar origin myth, the rise of the Zaporizhian Sich and its downfall when after under Bohdan Khmelnytsky it rebelled against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and ended up serving Imperial Russia. According to the introduction, using all available means, Moscow limited and nullified rights and freedoms of the Zaporizhian Host and eventually subjugated the free Cossack nation. Ivan Mazepa's politics and alliance with Charles XII of Sweden are explained as logical and inevitable, mandated by the need to free the homeland. The independence of the new state from Russia is given as the primary goal of the Bendery Constitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Cossacks
Of the different branches of Cossacks, the only one that documents allowing Jews into their society were the Cossacks of Ukraine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arendator
In the history of the Russian Empire, and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, arendator ("lease holder") was a person who leased fixed assets, such as land, mills, inns, breweries, or distilleries, or of special rights, such as the right to collect customs duties, etc. Individuals trusted by state officials were often given such rights to collect rent or revenue and were allowed to keep a portion of the money in exchange for this service, sometimes as a reward for other services to the state. The practice is called "rent/revenue farming".
Many estates of absentee landlords in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 16–18th centuries were managed by arendators. A significant part of them were Jews, which was an economic reason of antisemitism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qahal
The kahals were the organising body of the Jewish community in a given locality, and were primarily concerned with the collection of head tax and the exercise of jurisdiction within the community. In the 16th century, the kahals spread to the territory of Ukraine.
These Polish-Lithuanian kahals quickly came to be politically autonomous bodies with major regulatory control over Jewish communities in the region. The kahals acted as autonomous administration within each town, having jurisdiction over the local Jewish population and the legal right to regulate the contact between Poles and Jews in all their social, economical and political aspects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholem_Schwarzbard#Assassination_of_Petliura_(1926)
"I have killed a great assassin."