• zach@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    How do you stay “missing” that long without being found? Like if you applied for a job / filed your tax return / got a credit card wouldn’t some system get flagged?

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      6 days ago

      You dont do any of that, for one, or you do it under a fake name.

      It was also probally easier 24 years than it is now. No cellphones, no social media, very basic digital cameras, almost no survelance cameras.