A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man To Prison For 18 Months

一个下划线的缺失导致无辜男子入狱18个月

来源: arstechnica.com | 主题: Crime | 评论: 42

时间: on Monday July 27, 2026 @11:30PM

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months . A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in Madison, Wisconsin, and eventually extended to Halifax, Canada, was based on a false premise. Police were looking for a man using the Kik messaging service under the name "fusro_dah" (two underscores after "fus"), but they accidentally requested records for the username "fus_ro_dah" (one underscore after "fus"). This one-character difference led them not to the perpetrator but to a Canadian man named Brandon Klayme. (Ars readers may recognize "fus ro dah" as the Unrelenting Force "dragon shout " from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.) Despite finding no evidence of the crime on his

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