Iām timid about this and might be late to a party where others already had this idea, so please, no haters.
I canāt 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 askingā¦ but couldnāt an organization trying to conceal its reach and inevitability track a fellaā¦ and thenā¦ force an identification?
I do not have any idea about detailsā¦ itās broad strokes. Could it be? How many other privacy lovers heard about these three months completely off the grid somehow and also wonderedā¦ how?
Please pardon if this isnāt 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?
It was all over national news, and some international news, for days.
You might not be sure, but you donāt have to be sure. I would expect they got a very large number of tips, most which did not pan out, of course.
But I also donāt think itās ever been confirmed that it was an employee. My suspicion is there happened to be some law enforcement officer and they called it in. That would explain the rapid response, and the caginess about the tipoff.
Oh yeah thatās another thing: would you rat out the guy who killed a disgusting CEO if you flipped burgers for a living? Whatever you think of murder, you might well look the other way in this instance.
For a $50k reward? Yeah, I donāt know what McDonaldās employees make at that location, but itās probably low enough to make that very tempting.
Up toā¦
Nobody pays attention to that part. They just see the very prominent $50k! and think thatās what theyāre gonna get. Even if they do catch the āup toā they are going to hope. 50k is still life changing money to someone that makes 5x what a McDs worker makes.