I’m timid about this and might be late to a party where others already had this idea, so please, no haters.

I can’t get over how facile and stupid the identification of LM was at a McDoballs. This is someone who fell off the entire grid for three months??

Just asking… but couldn’t an organization trying to conceal its reach and inevitability track a fella… and then… force an identification?

I do not have any idea about details… it’s broad strokes. Could it be? How many other privacy lovers heard about these three months completely off the grid somehow and also wondered… how?

Please pardon if this isn’t the appropriate place but the real theme is privacy. What if the watchers are always watching even when a person might believe they have made themself completely digitally invisible?

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago
    • He couldn’t possibly know they’d go for that.
    • Grifters don’t always think things like this through.
    • A surprising # of people would probably willingly take the death penalty to get 15 minutes of fame, especially for an action as popular as this was.
    • wowwoweowza@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 hours ago

      I’m pretty cynical and I’m nowhere near this cynical.

      Is your interest in this “the guy in custody is an imposter” theory is because we want so much for the actual act-doer to still be out there? I confess… I like that world. But a “hero” arising to assume the shooter’s identity feels even more fantastical than my original musing that covert agencies are trying to hide their existence by having a wage slave take credit for calling this in.