Author Topic: McAfee Wanted for Murder (Read 3629 times)

Ben · « **on:** November 12, 2012, 06:20:50 PM »

This is bizarre. I had no idea the Mcafee founder was such a nutcase. He looks like a member of a prison gang in the photo.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/11/12/us-antivirus-legend-john-mcafee-wanted-for-murder-in-belize/

RocketMan · « **Reply #1 on:** November 12, 2012, 06:32:21 PM »

Read the article earlier today. Surprised me as well.

Ron · « **Reply #2 on:** November 12, 2012, 06:33:09 PM »

Bath salts again.

John McAfee is a zombie?

Great, right as I'm approaching my 50's bath salts will be made illegal.

lee n. field · « **Reply #3 on:** November 12, 2012, 06:38:39 PM »

Quote from: Ben on November 12, 2012, 06:20:50 PM

This is bizarre. I had no idea the Mcafee founder was such a nutcase. He looks like a member of a prison gang in the photo.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/11/12/us-antivirus-legend-john-mcafee-wanted-for-murder-in-belize/

Interesting. Reminds me somewhat of Phil Katz.

Stetson · « **Reply #4 on:** November 12, 2012, 07:31:09 PM »

My brother and I helped build his house up here. He's since sold it as far as we know. Lots of fences and gates up there... He was a nutball back then so Im not all that surprised.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #5 on:** November 12, 2012, 07:34:56 PM »

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“Around the time his herbal drug plan collapsed, he started to get really heavily into this kind of synthetic, hallucinogenic hyper-aphrodisiac,” Wise told FoxNews.com.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/11/12/us-antivirus-legend-john-mcafee-wanted-for-murder-in-belize/#ixzz2C3gJcXkx

GigaBuist · « **Reply #6 on:** November 12, 2012, 07:41:59 PM »

Quote from: lee n. field on November 12, 2012, 06:38:39 PM

Interesting. Reminds me somewhat of Phil Katz.

Yeah, a bit.

For that that don't know Phil Katz was the man behind pkzip and pkunzip. He's pretty much the reason that the .ZIP file format is dominate in its area. Drank himself to death over many years, kicking the bucket in 2000 in a hotel room with an empty bottle in his hand. Had a penchant for strippers I gather.

McAfee has been down in Belize for a while living it up with teenage prostitutes, playing with guns, and generally living like an irresponsible version of Charlie Sheen. Wasn't more than a week ago that I ran across an article (which I can't find right now) pointing out the guy was living like a nutcase rockstar until now.

Ben · « **Reply #7 on:** November 12, 2012, 08:23:24 PM »

The Gizmodo story sheds more light, and I find the firearms references interesting. I've spent time in San Pedro, and it's not the kind of place where someone repeatedly walks around "shooting his gun" without a response from the local Gendarmes.

http://gizmodo.com/5959812/john-mcafee-wanted-for-murder

Waitone · « **Reply #8 on:** November 13, 2012, 08:32:50 AM »

Never did like his AV software. I much prefer a former KGB colonel product. Much better privacy>

Marnoot · « **Reply #9 on:** November 13, 2012, 10:21:10 AM »

Quote from: Waitone on November 13, 2012, 08:32:50 AM

I much prefer a former KGB colonel product. Much better privacy>

Only if you trust he's not got his products in bed with the Kremlin, etc. The man's got a lot of close ties to the FSB.

lee n. field · « **Reply #10 on:** November 13, 2012, 10:27:57 AM »

Quote from: Waitone on November 13, 2012, 08:32:50 AM

Never did like his AV software. I much prefer a former KGB colonel product. Much better privacy>

Home user stuff is crap. But, pretty much all home user AV is obnoxious. I haven't had (much) problem with corporate McAfee versions.

Ben · « **Reply #11 on:** November 13, 2012, 10:52:33 AM »

Quote from: lee n. field on November 13, 2012, 10:27:57 AM

Home user stuff is crap. But, pretty much all home user AV is obnoxious. I haven't had (much) problem with corporate McAfee versions.

Really? We have McAfee Enterprise at work and I hate it. Totally bogs everything down. I thought it was just the way Enterprise runs in general, but maybe it's more in configuration? I'm making the assumption fed.gov configures it to be as impractical and inefficient as possible. Much like how they configure Active Directory where they turn on all the crappy stuff and turn off all the useful stuff.

ArfinGreebly · « **Reply #12 on:** November 13, 2012, 03:58:08 PM »

And current news indicates he's not a suspect?

Did I hear that right?

Ben · « **Reply #13 on:** November 13, 2012, 04:35:14 PM »

I saw something where he said he's innocent, but haven't seen anything where the law says he's innocent.

I also saw where he just called a Wired reporter and told him he got scared and buried himself in the sand with a cardboard box over his head to hide from the police. This is a very strange story.

MillCreek · « **Reply #14 on:** November 13, 2012, 06:30:48 PM »

Quote from: Ben on November 13, 2012, 04:35:14 PM

I saw something where he said he's innocent, but haven't seen anything where the law says he's innocent.

I also saw where he just called a Wired reporter and told him he got scared and buried himself in the sand with a cardboard box over his head to hide from the police. This is a very strange story.

It sounds like his neurochemistry is trending downward. Schizophrenia or psychosis comes to mind.

RevDisk · « **Reply #15 on:** November 13, 2012, 06:48:23 PM »

Quote from: Marnoot on November 13, 2012, 10:21:10 AM

Only if you trust he's not got his products in bed with the Kremlin, etc. The man's got a lot of close ties to the FSB.

I've known Eugene Kaspersky for about... a decade or so. He has a lot of integrity. And he's also... controlling of his software. Now I'm not saying he would go totally Vladimir Putin on you if you tried to make him cripple his software to allow state sponsored spyware. But I wouldn't bring up the subject unless it was in a padded room and he was tied up more securely than Hannibal Lector. He worked more with the GRU than the KGB, and his company does have ties to the FSB. But the Russian Federation has not asked him to sabotage his product, as most folks know what his reaction would be. Basically, imagine me in a locked room filled with hippies and chainsaws, and that would be the mildest reaction.

His company is one of the few that does NOT get in bed with state security agencies.

Buddy of mine runs the data centers for McAfee and may be offering me a gig there. He gets a deep discount on McAfee and Intel products (Intel owns McAfee). He runs Kaspersky.

John McAfee has always been a nutbag.

Marnoot · « **Reply #16 on:** November 13, 2012, 10:15:16 PM »

Good info RevDisk, thanks.

slingshot · « **Reply #17 on:** November 14, 2012, 08:28:25 PM »

I also hear he is a nutcase. I guess he's a genius? Figures he is above the law. Never liked his software.

Ben · « **Reply #18 on:** December 13, 2012, 09:52:09 AM »

Apparently McAfee has wound his way into the United States. I love this quote from Belize's Prime Minister:

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Belize's prime minister, Dean Barrow, has expressed doubts about McAfee's mental state, saying: "I don't want to be unkind to the gentleman, but I believe he is extremely paranoid, even bonkers."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/12/12/goodbye-guatemala-john-mcafee-to-return-to-us/?test=latestnews#ixzz2EwYDgHQg

kgbsquirrel · « **Reply #19 on:** December 13, 2012, 10:30:02 AM »

Quote from: Marnoot on November 13, 2012, 10:21:10 AM

Only if you trust he's not got his products in bed with the Kremlin, etc. The man's got a lot of close ties to the FSB.

Well, you've pretty much got a handful of choices. Software with backdoors for the NSA. Software with backdoors for the FSB. Or software with backdoors for the MSS. Your call.

ETA: Slingshot, if he is an actual genius, then the odds are good he already had some level of emotional or mental disturbance. The two just tend to trend together. If he's also been down in Belize doing mountains of booze, hookers and blow.... eh, does the term Drug-Induced Schizophrenia mean anything to anyone?

Hutch · « **Reply #20 on:** December 14, 2012, 12:14:46 PM »

Quote from: GigaBuist on November 12, 2012, 07:41:59 PM

<snip> living like an irresponsible version of Charlie Sheen <snip>

I'm trying to unpack that. Can't?

RocketMan · « **Reply #21 on:** January 12, 2013, 02:59:52 PM »

McAfee is now in Portland. Helping to keep it weird I suppose.
He claims to be collaborating with a local artist on a graphic novel about his life, plans to stay for a year and a half. A comic book about his life. Sounds somehow appropriate.
Story here.

Boomhauer · « **Reply #22 on:** January 12, 2013, 05:38:33 PM »

Quote from: RocketMan on January 12, 2013, 02:59:52 PM

McAfee is now in Portland. Helping to keep it weird I suppose.
He claims to be collaborating with a local artist on a graphic novel about his life, plans to stay for a year and a half. A comic book about his life. Sounds somehow appropriate.
Story here.

Are the Belize authorities offering any kind of reward? Dead, Alive, Either?
I would happily extradite his ass in any condition for them.

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Author Topic: McAfee Wanted for Murder (Read 3629 times)