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submitted 21 hours ago by wowwoweowza@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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?

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[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 20 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I personally don't think he did it. He could easily be a grifter trying to take credit for a very popular act. There's no shortage of those. All you'd need to do:

  • Walk into a public place with a bag of somewhat incriminating items, but nothing that's linked to the actual crime scene.
  • Arouse enough suspicion to get the cops called on you. Being a white guy with black hair and a hoodie is not enough for someone to call the cops on you, I have no idea why people believe that was enough for a McD's employee to call the cops.
  • Claim credit for the shooting to the cops.
  • Bonus points - Have a social media history praising similar actions.

The altoona cops then forwarded this to the NYPD, who were desperate to pin this on someone, after they messed up and let the shooter slip through their fingers. Out of the all the tips, this was the best one they'd gotten so far, so they're running with it now.

This also explains why Luigi's taking credit for some, but not all of the claims the police made (especially about the money he was supposedly carrying).

[-] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

And get the death penalty? What?

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours 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.
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