Tarun Wadhwa  Tarun Wadhwa, Contributor  I write about
technologies, entrepreneurship and public policy  4/22/2013 @
9:32AM |5,757 views  Lessons From Crowdsourcing The Boston
Bombing Investigation  (source: imgur.com) A graphic by 4Chan’s
“ThinkTank” lays out supposed evidence against many different
people  All it took was a couple of hours for high-school
sophomore Salah Barhoum to have his entire world turned upside
down.  Up until that point, he was best known for being a
standout athlete.  But suddenly, through no fault of his own, he
was being followed by strange men convinced that he was
responsible for the heinous bombings at the Boston Marathon that
happened just days earlier.  The FBI had not named any suspects
yet, but his face was already on the cover of the NY Post,
labeled as a person of interest.  Unfortunately for Barhoum, and
well over a dozen others, they were the victims of shoddy
detective work – their identities were broadcast publicly while
they were accused of crimes they had nothing to