alt Hacker News> Totally possible, but why bother?
Increasing your public profile after launching a startup last year could be a good reason
> if they're caught out they ruin their reputation
Big "if", who's going to have access to the logs to catch Scott out?
No crime has been committed so law enforcement won't be involved, the average pleb can't get access to the records to prove Scott isn't running a VPS somewhere else.
Completely, but if you're the type who cares that much about your public profile, it's a pretty big risk. Even if nobody can prove anything, this type of rampant speculation was obviously going to happen. I see no clear cut benefit to the sociopathic behaviour of setting all of this up with multiple blog posts and layers of lies.