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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

The full GTA V source code has been leaked The leak contains GTA V source code and stuff from Bully 2 and GTA VI Leaked in a discord server by a random British guy in the 360 modding community known to get sued by Rockstar multiple times

"Now i am expecting a open source version of gta to arrive soon on linux natively . Tired of playing supertuxcart."

Here is the source. Another one.

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[–] [email protected] 429 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (56 children)

If you're not aware, the hack was performed by Arion Kurtaj, an 18 year old, who has been put in ~~prison~~ a psych ward in a uk prison. He hacked rockstar at a hotel, where he was left with no computers or phones, only to find that the TV had a chromecast, which he used to buy a phone and a keyboard (presumably by selling his monero).

  • He hacked into all major uk telcom providers: EE, BT and Orange.
  • He hacked into nvidia

This kid deserves a 7-8 digits salary as a pentester, not prison; plenty of pentesting companies would hire him in a heartbeat.

Don't get me wrong, he deserves a long and drawn out lesson on morals, but also a stellar salary where he can do what he's doing for the right side.

EDIT: I have made a mistake in my original comment, which has been pointed out. My bad, he's technically in a psych ward in a uk prison, because he's aggressive and unstable. I still stand by what I said (and what I clarified in the comments below), but I wanted to correct the record

[–] [email protected] 168 points 11 months ago (5 children)

You have to convince him first it is what he wants to do. He seems very fixated on being a cyber criminal at this time and money is unlikely to sway him.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 11 months ago (7 children)

He can learn once he understands the repercussions of his actions. Remember that he's an autistic teenager, he has a lot to learn about life and especially morality.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

He'll learn great lessons in jail! /S

[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That’s why he’s in a prison hospital instead. I think they are called psyche wards or mental institutes in some places.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't get me wrong, he deserves a long and drawn out lesson on morals,

So do the executives of rockstar and every major game studio.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

This kid deserves a 7-8 digits salary as a pentester, not prison; plenty of pentesting companies would hire him in a heartbeat.

I keep hearing this.

Find me any company that will hire someone so unstable and destructive, and I'll show you a company with bad hiring practices.

This is someone you can never count on to do anything they don't want to do. Someone who will destroy things if they don't get their way. Triple letters won't touch him.

Also, let's be clear, a lot of this was social engineering. He didn't do anything impressive, he just did things others wouldn't be brazen enough to do because they didn't want to get caught.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (5 children)

This is someone you can never count on to do anything they don’t want to do. Someone who will destroy things if they don’t get their way. Triple letters won’t touch him.

definitely, but people can change

a lot of this was social engineering

people always have a high and mighty mentality when talking about social engineering, most attacks today use some form of social engineering and have for a long time, if not always.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

This kid deserves a 7-8 digits salary as a pentester, not prison; plenty of pentesting companies would hire him in a heartbeat.

You're forgetting a vitally important part of being a pentester.

Namely that they need to be trusted not to leak billions of dollars worth of trade secrets.

This kid is a prodigy as a black hat, but he'd be an embarrassment as a pentester.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I agree with you in principle, you are definitely objectively correct, however people can redeem themselves.

To name two:

  • Mitnick (RIP) started as a black hat
  • Gollumfun started as a twisted criminal
[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I used to work as a pentester. It's an open secret that like a good chunk of people in the industry are former criminals. But former is kind of the keyword. Not only is he doing crime after being arrested and still under surveillance, but he can't even lie and say he won't do it again. The kid is unhireable, at least not until he can get his compulsions under control.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 11 months ago (2 children)

He’s talented, but the problem is jobs like pen testing require a LOT of trust to work in. So far this guy has said and shown that he intents on staying in cybercrime rather than doing legitimate work.

As it stands, given how he’s acted, I can’t see a single company that would let him pen test their systems or a red team that would take that risk to their reputation.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I want to bet this dude is a giant asshole. Not sure why people keep making a hero out of him, he sounds like an awful person.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

As far as I recall he actively seeks to commit cybercrimes and even says so himself.

It's not the first young hacker on the spectrum that has urges to hack stuff.

It's a whole different question when someone is conscious he is doing something illegal and actively seeks to do it.

This is not another Aaron Swartz story imo. It's an autistic individual that doesn't hack out of curiosity but in order to damage businesses, and people or benefit himself.

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 11 months ago (12 children)

It's weird to me that, in this specific community, people is condemning this kid as a cyber criminal and as someone playing for the "wrong side".

[–] [email protected] 65 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No one is condemning him for hacking Rockstar. They're defending the decisions to put him a hospital because he's unstable. It doesn't help anyone having this kind of black hat shit being so public, sloppy, and visibly unhinged.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just corpo simps being corpo simps from what I can tell.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I don't see anyone simping for corporations, just not rushing to celebrate or defend someone so obviously unhinged.

Also, the point is not to get caught, and he's extremely brazen about it even when directly under police watch.

There are plenty of other black hats out there that don't act like this. No one is shaking a finger at them. By all means, crack these corporations wide open.

But this guy in particular is not worth raising up.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Okay guys, looks like the mediafire one has been taken down, Rockstar lawyers are really freaking out

[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (10 children)

The source filesize 4.3GB seems really odd for a >100GB game. Why is it like that?

[–] [email protected] 131 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (11 children)

There are 3 leaks in circulation:

4.3 gigs, src only

17 gigs, src + partial assets

1 TB, src + full assets

[–] [email protected] 60 points 11 months ago

Data hoarders where you at?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm looking for full assets; can anyone give a magnet?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Holy shit a whole terabyte? God damn.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All the code, commit history, build scripts, used assets, unused assets, modified assets, random extra stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago

It's probably just the code without any assets (textures, 3d models, etc.). Code really doesn't take much space. You'd have a hard time actually building it to something playable as is, but this is still useful to modders.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Most of that size is assets rather than programme code

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 11 months ago

This will finally put mount chiliad conspiracies to rest.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 65 points 11 months ago

Tired of playing supertuxcart.

michael-laugh

[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (2 children)

A python file named in CamelCase?!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Anyone got magnet hash so I can seed it?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

85a4f24753bbbb4db2821bd01a1a06b3c3a8dc1b

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This makes me want to download it to snoop around.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As a release engineer for Electronic Arts for 13 years, this looks like to me a copy of either the source folder from Perforce, a devs machine that had synced a stream, or the same from a build machine. It's not uncommon to use batch files and python scripts to reconfigure a workspace to switch workspaces. I see a solution file in there.

I would bet that particular file is an automation script to configure a machine for development.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago

Great. Put it on torrents before rockstar files a lawsuit.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago

Apparently?

Quoting without source?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago

Open source Linux GTA with multiple cities would fuck. I'd set up my first dual boot for that.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's written in Python? Is that why it takes ages to load?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Probably only the build scripts are written in python

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

I couldn't care less about holidays but this right here made my Christmas :D

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