A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack

Re:A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack by runjake on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @08:28PM (#24985898)

I looked at this a year ago but unfortunately lost the note I kept.

There was a fellow named Ben Bellamy, who was a software developer, on LinkedIn at one time with a photo that closely matched this guy. I believe he was, in fact, in the New York area but I cannot remember for sure,

I did some poking around tonight but couldn't pull up his LI profile again.

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Re:A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack by exogeny on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @09:35PM (#24986139)

Very interestingly, the PDF distributed by Collier County lists an alias of "Ben Bilemy".

That simply cannot be just a coincidence.

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Re:A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack by runjake on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:35PM (#24986300)

I don’t recall exactly but I believe I was checking last name variances based off of the Bilemy alias.

So, not a coincidence.

Sorry for the hazy memory. It was a while ago and was not super important to me. It was just one of my many random OSINT exercises I like to do.

Hopefully my comment might spur somebody on HN with more time to locate the LI profile.

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Re:A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack by ficklepickle on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @04:08PM (#24993085)

I found a reddit post[0] linking the LI profile[1] of Ben Bellamy. Can't get past the login-wall right now but I will check later.

0 -https://www.reddit.com/r/AppalachianTrail/comments/970h8f/co...

1 - https://goo.gl/images/8dALKK (Actually a google images link that redirects to LinkedIn)

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Re:A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack by patpending on Thursday November 05, 2020 @10:29AM (#24999056)

My brain kept spoonerizing the alias to "Bill Benemy". Google searches show that "Benemy" is a real surname, but it's not very common.

Google also informed me that "Benemy" (or "Benami") means "no name" in Urdu, so if one was into word games then "Bill Benemy" could be "Bill No-Name".

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Re:A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack by geocrasher on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @09:57PM (#24986215)

I'd find it hard to believe that he's still a missing person if they already had his real name.

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Re:A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack by gfaure on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @11:01PM (#24986371)

Since he did modify the spelling, I don't think it's that hard to imagine.

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Re:A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack by evan_ on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:02PM (#24986230)

I’m sure that’s how the other poster found the LinkedIn user...

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Re:A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack by noisy_boy on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @12:25AM (#24986586)

jml7c5 posted in this thread about this from his notebook pages:

> 16: "BLL", a programming/scripting language, probably short for "B... L... Language".

Could "BLL" be related to Ben Bellamy?

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Re:A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack by patpending on Thursday November 05, 2020 @10:21AM (#24998981)

Could also be "Business Logic Layer"

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