it's not that sophisticated opsec to wipe your keys and hard drive
when that moron accepted a date with the CIA he disappeared
zero chance his drives retained any of the code or data
zero chance he retained the keys
the very fact that the CIA got interested confirmed that it had "caught on" and it was on fire and that was all he was gonna get away with so he probably took a bus to mexico and that was that
plenty of places to get work when you are a C++ server programmer
i know what it means to burn keys that are worth something
did it twice in my life already so far