Nah, it's even better. "These messages were printed on a variety of different printers on three separate dates, but all of the printers were in an Office Depot during that time. Now we just need to go through the footage of those days to see who was in that store on all three days." Meanwhile, you're in another state on those days, doing crime.

> on all three

Except if you can manipulate the timestamps, then they aren't relevant anymore, so the search space is much bigger than the intersection of each set of days.

It's the intersection of all the people who visited each printer at least once any time.

Or post a thread on r/inkjetssuck or some such, and just have people from all over the world go into the big box stores to get serials to post as a reply