GTA 6 Hacker Found To Be Teen With Amazon Fire Stick In Small Town Hotel Room

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GTA 6 Hacker Found To Be Teen With Amazon Fire Stick In Small Town Hotel Room
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The fact he used a FireTV stick to hack Rockstar is pretty impressive lol

I’m guessing those things run Linux. So you would just need a shell.

Though I’m guessing term of his house arrest didn’t allow him to have a keyboard. That part has me curious.

They run Android, so not really standard Linux, but yeah.

Install an Android app that lets you ssh into something, bingo bango, you have a full Linux terminal

It says he used cloud services so probably only needed a web browser

bingo bango

what's up with this phrase coming back into style?

The article or maybe the comments said he accessed a cloud based Linux service using the FireStick and went to work from there.

So either a remote control or voice control.

Anyway, kid has too much time on his hands, lol.

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