alt Hacker NewsThings like it have happened. The Unabomber was identified through his writing idiosyncrasies.
Lots of criminals have been identified by reanalyzing old DNA samples using data and genealogical techniques that weren't possible at the time the samples were left.
> The Unabomber was identified through his writing idiosyncrasies.
By his brother, apparently. His brother read the manifesto, and said, “hey, sounds eerily familiar!”
But wouldn’t it be deliciously ironic if A.I. had caught Kaczynski‽