How Wired found the iPhone guy…

Here’s a really interesting piece on how Wired tracked down the iPhone finder. Some really nice investigation work here.  People who like to play at being journalists should take notes.

And so the hunt for clues began — a week after Gizmodo broke its story. By then, Hogan had deleted his Facebook profile, and presumably every other social networking profile he owned, in an effort to hide. That made the search difficult, but his attempt to disappear was already a major clue that he was in trouble.

If people take nothing away from this story, it should be this: by the time you try to erase your tracks, it’s way, way too late. Erasing your tracks merely creates new, more visible marks that point to you. Either that or you better be ready to kill all of your friends, hack into all of THEIR systems and accounts and delete all of their stuff, too.

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