• Tja@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    Well, TIL. I liked it better when it was a meme and not a serious police investigation that took him down, but it makes sense.

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      11 months ago

      I suspect the reason it spread so easily was that people wanted to believe.

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        11 months ago

        I think the fact that people have been located through even more obscure methods helped spread the lie. Remember when 4chan located a flag via Shia LaBeouf’s twitter and plane contrails. Somebody fucking up infosec with a pizza box is honestly quite believable.