Man convicted of child sex crime by added _ char "Fus Ro Dah" Skyrim username

Hacker News is featuring a CBC report on how a single underscore character led to the conviction of an innocent Halifax man on a child sex crime. As the headline tells it, the added character in a Skyrim username was enough to tie him to the case. The feed links only the CBC article and doesn't include further detail on how the error unfolded.

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