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The Tale of "Mostly Harmless"—Most Interesting Thing in Tech


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A man who worked in tech headed off on the Appalachian Trail in 2017, without a phone and without an ID. He walked from NY to Florida, but then was found dead in a tent in the summer of 2018. Since then Internet sleuths have dug deep into the mystery of who he was. And now a company that does genealogical DNA is trying to build out a family tree. But still no one knows his name. More here: https://www.wired.com/story/nameless-hiker-mostly-harmless-internet-mystery/.

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