Wired’s Evan Ratliff Found After 25 Days

Wired writer Evan Ratliff wanted to see if he could really disappear despite a $5000 bounty on him. So he started the "Vanish" experiment and managed to elude searchers for 25 days before being caught. Wired has the story and it's pretty neat.

The idea for the contest started with a series of questions, foremost among them: How hard is it to vanish in the digital age? Long fascinated by stories of faked deaths, sudden disappearances, and cat-and-mouse games between investigators and fugitives, I signed on to write a story for Wired about people who’ve tried to end one life and start another. People fret about privacy, but what are the consequences of giving it all up, I wondered.

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