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A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2026
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The technicalities of usernames and underscores makes this seem more complicated than it really is:
"Without any evidence whatsoever we convicted a man named Joe Smith, because we had been told that there was some man somewhere named Joe Smith, who was suspected of being a criminal."