Because they couldn’t. He bought the bag before they automatically tracked all purchasers with a unique ID on the bags they sell. The CEO of PD actively called the tip line.
“He bought the bag before they automatically tracked all purchasers with a unique ID on the bags they sell.”
The fuck?
And who else does this?
Just so everybody knows, when you decide to do your own homework, you should go to your local thrift store and purchase the most Generic clothing and Accessories that you can. No High end brand names. Something mass produced.
And ffs, don’t leave shit at the scene.
I admire his ability to complete a project, but I have some notes.
And have more than one fake ID, and multiple changes of clothing stashed on the escape route. And ditch the firearm in the bag with a rock in the river at night. Don’t try to hide out in bum fuck Pennsylvania. And don’t carry your manifesto with you, I don’t wander around outside unmasked when it’s cold enough to be masked. Probably don’t etch the casings yourself. Matter of fact don’t drop casings for the gun you used.
Assuming he actually made these mistakes there’s a whole lot of hindsight to go around.
And no digital money. Cash only!
Or just get a LEO badge then you don’t have to go through all of that.
What are your notes?
What’s your advice for getting out of the city without being tracked?
If we’re giving notes being caught with the gun and the manifesto also bad. And then going to sit down and eat at a McDonald’s while on the run. And wearing a mask in Altoona where he probably could have just walked in with his face showing an not gotten caught because the surveillance photos from the NYPD looked so different. And then giving a police officer a fake ID which gave them probable cause for everything…yeah police are going to catch the fake ID…
He’s obviously not a professional hitman. I wonder if NYPD/Feds would have been able to track him down eventually anyway with the evidence left in New York.
Probably not. If he stayed inside no one would have found him
Protip: It’s called Gray Man and there’s more to it so get educated and practice.🙂
Yup. This is also why protestors are encouraged to wear plain black clothes, like a hoodie, gloves, sunglasses, mask, and black jeans. When everyone is wearing nearly identical clothes, it introduces a lot of reasonable doubt in any resulting security camera footage. It’s called Black Bloc.
Don’t wear black block if you’re not prepared to be harassed though. Instead wear something theoretically identifiable but bland. Gray shirt, blue jeans, no jewelry, identifiable tattoos covered… You want to look like just another person so that when you walk away nobody thinks you look like a protestor
And for the love of fuck don’t wear black block while committing solo crimes. It’s about “you just described a lot of people here”
Not that I’m advocating anything, but it certainly does make sense to have a change of clothes stashed nearby to change your appearance rather quickly. Just need an effective means of discarding them (maybe set it on fire inside a dumpster? I dunno).
Yeah, like maybe have some barrels ready with flammable material inside. Hash tag planning. 🤪
The bag they eventually located [looked] just like Peak Design’s crowdfunded “Everyday” V1 model [and] was likely bought between 2016 and 2019. Dering […] called the NYPD tip line to share what he knew and vowed to do “whatever is possible” to identify the shooter, including consulting Peak Design’s legal team to see what he could share with police.
Headline correction: He denies specifically snitching on Luigi, but would eagerly have done so if they were able but found that he didn’t have the data.
Now I don’t feel bad about buying a rip off of their camera clip.
Imagine letting it get out that you, as a CEO, actively called a tip line personally, in the most limped dick, impotent, wienery way possible, to try and help the police arrest a man who became a working class hero for murdering a CEO. That dude might be the biggest sissy that ever lived.
This is an astronomical level of dick-sucking. From a CEO no less
Class solidarity. The rich work together to fuck over the poor. The poor, being poor and having way more people and way less time, squabble amongst themselves.
The rich amplifies and intensity that internal battle so the poor don’t realize that they already won, if they just work together.
You can watch it in action as all these tech billionaires fly out to meet with the presidential billionaire at his mansion and leave token millions in greeting. Im sure this “peak design” fuckwit will join them, given the chance.
Again we see CEOs have solidarity with their class.
Something to think about.
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Might as well nuke your account now while you’re behind.
Think nothing of it, Captain Oblivious!
No need to be an asshole dude
Why would I want a company to track my backpack? How is that a feature?
If you have ever registered a product you purchased with the manufacturer, you’ve done exactly that. They’re not talking about tracking the product after you buy it. They’re basically just talking about automatic proof of purchase.
I don’t think that ‘tracing’ here means something like ‘there’s a GPS tracker in every backpack’.
You could see this type of backpack in a CCTV shot. Later the police recovered a backpack - that they thought was the one on CCTV - and now need to find the owner. If it was registered at the company by the owner, they may have been able to say “oh yes, that serial number is registered to a customer. Here’s their name and address they told us when registering at $date”. If the customer never registered their bag, the only piece of information they could give out would (maybe) be something like “This bag was sent to an Amazon warehouse at $date, ask them if they know who bought these bags around $date”
Except the “by the owner.” The problem here is they are auto-registered at time of purchase.
Ah yes, product registration. Good to know me absentmindedly not registering is fighting against police tracking and CEO business strategy.
They don’t. Nearly everything that you buy has a unique serial number, and if consumers are buying direct from manufacturers it could, in theory, link a consumer to a serial number. It’s unlikely that they could make those connections, though. Peak sells direct, but they also sell through 3rd party stores and distributors, where there is an abstraction between the serials and consumers.
Old peak design bags do not have unique serial numbers, but batch numbers shared among many bags. Not defending PD, but if that’s true, there isn’t much they could’ve done to help with the investigation even if they wanted to.
If it’s lost you can report it. It helps get the bag back if someone finds it and reports it missing. It’s obviously a toss up, but there are honest people who try to return things.
I would assume these are intended for use when hiking and mountain climbing. It could save your life if someone else has your GPS coordinates when you go missing.
Any serious hiker concerned about that would carry an SOS beacon for an emergency. I would I no way want my backpack broadcasting my GPS location 24/7 in case I get lost in the woods.
Pretty much any Peak Design product has a alternative that is on par in quality and usually cheaper. Their bags, strap and clip system, and their tripods. You may want you to look into those next time you’re shopping.
Edit: PetaPixel interviewed him and he came across as a massive douche.
Okay can you recommend me a bag?
Yes. What are you looking for? School? Commuter? Hiking? Photography? What types of items will you carry? What’s your budget? Tolerance for weather?
I wonder is this will help or hurt the sales of that particular backpack. Could be a break even.
Definitely help
I don’t have a peak bag, but I do have osprey and chrome, which honor lifetime guarantees. Their (not old) bags have codes inside that are used in case of repair/replacement.
Just wrap your devices in aluminum foil.
