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John McAfee Accused of Murder, Wanted By Belize Police
New submitter thn writes "John McAfee, who started the antivirus software giant named after him, has been accused of murder in Belize and is wanted. McAfee had taken to 'posting on a drug-focused Russian message board...about his attempts to purify the psychoactive compounds colloquially known as "bath salts,"' Gizmodo wrote. The scariest aspect of this story may be the fact that an entire lab was constructed for John McAfee's research purposes. Because of his efforts to extract chemicals from natural chemical plans McAfee was able to justify his experiments in a country that is largely unregulated."
I can't wait for the movie to come out!
He already murdered my computer with his insanely slow Security Suite.
FTA: Update 1:37 p.m. PT To include additional information from CBS that indicates McAfee is not wanted for the killing of Gregory Faull as Gizmodo previously reported but is only wanted for questioning at this time.
A software anti-virus maker is venturing into real life bio anti-virus?
So is his company then going the way of ReiserFS?
Well when Hans Reiser was thrown in jail, work on ReiserFS halted; which was sad because it was halfway useful to some people. Hopefully now, that POS software that McAfee puts out will stop.
I've always thought McAfee felt a bit over-engineered. This explains a lot.
Looks like this story has the potential to go....
*sunglasses*
Viral.
Yeeeeeeeaaaaahhhhhh!
I'll wait until someone else confirms. Possibly Netcraft.
Running a rather boring software company to description like some sort of supervillain, thats quite a transition.
Dear god let his compound contain an active volcano lair.
Put him in a cell with Reiser...
Sounds a lot like what people think a libertarian paradise should look like: low regulation, freedom to do almost anything you want on your property, etc. Little did they mention that it means having to keep a personal standing army around, negotiating with other local power brokers, securing health care through direct, personal efforts, and all kinds of other fun stuff that makes dealing with the IRS a happy fun time walk in the park.
To me, this sounds like it's some local payback for McAfee having failed to do much negotiating with local power brokers. If you want to be your own island, it means you also do your own foreign policy. As a result, I have little compassion for McAfee, or little interest in the story. It pretty much just confirm what I always suspected was going to happen to assholes with money pursuing their liberal fantasy.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
Went from "honoured guest" to "undesirable individual" in one bounced check.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
As reported on Slashdot here ? I wonder if they were tracking him down back then for posession of a Luger 9mm.
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I think that the correct meme is MDPV is as worst as smoked meth, news at 11
Jehovah be praised, Oracle was not selected
Really, just trying to imagine in my head any of the countless software engineers I've ever known moving on to generate a story like this.. It's just weird.
when a legalized money laundering country screws you for murder your fucked....
He's wanted for questioning, not murder at this point in time.
These guns found in the McAfee place and this Luger 9mm do have similarities to the untrained eye.
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Also surprisingly, in yesterdays news from Belize, he donated a whole bunch of equipment to the same police that now wants to question him....:)
http://www.7newsbelize.com/index.php#story12 [7newsbelize.com]
http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/78161 [channel5belize.com]
Maybe not so surprising!! :)
Because of his efforts to extract chemicals from natural chemical plans McAfee was able to justify his experiments in a country that is largely unregulated."
Err... what? What's meant by "natural chemical plans" here? And why would he have to justify his experiments if the country is largely unregulated?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
The Reiser-McAfee project!
FTA:
apparent gunshot wound on the upper rear part of his head
apparently dead
The local CSI team is verifying the facts
...it's far from being Gangnam Style.
The specific properties of the drugs he was attempting to isolate also fit in well with what those closest to him have reported: that he is an enthusiastic amateur pharmacologist with a longstanding interest in drugs that induce sexual behavior in women. Indeed, former friends of McAfee have said he could be extremely persistent and devious in trying to coerce women who rebuff his advances to have sex with him.
You see ladies, what we male nerds have to turn to? Stop being so uptight.
What I find the most strange about this, by far, is that the drug was MDPV. It is awful, dangerous, unpleasant stuff in general (based on reports - I've never taken it). The market for "bath salts" is pretty much 99% people who live in isolated areas or don't know the people to get something better. It's legal (or used to be), and can be ordered online easily. That's it. That's it's only appeal.
For actual people who enjoy mind-expanders and occasional responsible drug use, if they can get it they'll take vastly safer and more enjoyable things like LSD and MDMA.
MDPV is dangerous and for desperate people. McAfee really should be able to do better.
Weird I say.
A Gawker Networks site got something wrong?
In a sensationalist fashion?
SHOCKING.
Seriously, why does everyone still put up with those fucktards? Their level of incompetence has crossed from believable to they-must-be-doing-it-on-purpose-for-page-hits.
Please help metamoderate.
ReiserFS - For when you need to partition your wife.
I'm safe in an undisclosed location plotting something "hypersexual" with my left hand.
BTW all ur computers are infected with bathsalt zombie goo.
--stuffmonger
And the link between the murder, and bath-salts is....
The hysteria in the U.S. over recreational drug use is amazing. For example, all the news stories about Johnny Lewis mentioned police speculation that he was on the drug "smiles" when he went berserk, despite there being no evidence whatseover of this. e.g.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/actor-johnny-lewis-suspected-taking-drug-smiles-killings/story?id=17346564
Time and time again, these speculative drug links make a big splash in the media, and then by the time they prove false, no one cares.
I would have thought Slashdot was a bit more into looking at the evidence before making wild speculation, but apparently not.
And the link between the murder, and bath-salts is.... The hysteria in the U.S. over recreational drug use is amazing. For example, all the news stories about Johnny Lewis mentioned police speculation that he was on the drug "smiles" when he went berserk, despite there being no evidence whatseover of this. e.g. http://abcnews.go.com/US/actor-johnny-lewis-suspected-taking-drug-smiles-killings/story?id=17346564 Time and time again, these speculative drug links make a big splash in the media, and then by the time they prove false, no one cares. I would have thought Slashdot was a bit more into looking at the evidence before making wild speculation, but apparently not.
Deconstruct the State
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?s=mcafee
locally from what is happening in Belize with Mcafee
Why might the scariest part of the story be that he built a lab?
Korma: Good
The specific properties of the drugs he was attempting to isolate also fit in well with what those closest to him have reported: that he is an enthusiastic amateur pharmacologist with a longstanding interest in drugs that induce sexual behavior in women. Indeed, former friends of McAfee have said he could be extremely persistent and devious in trying to coerce women who rebuff his advances to have sex with him.
I wonder how much of this article is true. Sounds like a total douche.
McAfee wouldn't pay local Belize police protection money.
He had complained the new government thugs were shaking him down before any of these charges were filed.
This sort of thing happens happens to rich people who leave the US or EU and our governments look the other way because they didn't pay their protection money (taxes).
Dang! You got here before me!
HexaByte - he's a square and a half!
If you want a source that is taken seriously, you don't use gizmodo.
Jeez - I knew this guy. For me this is what makes this story incredibly interesting.
He used to frequent a fairly small yoga class in Aptos about 10 years ago with his wife at the time. I remember he brought in a bunch of yoga books which he wrote and gave copies to everybody. I didn't know he was the McAfee guy at first but he seemed like an interesting person.
He later suffered from the local small-town rumor mill for something he did that I didn't pay attention to.
But this story is astounding to me! It reads like a gangster movie script.
His name sake virus scanner murders my PCs performance daily.
This sounds like some half baked troll that anonymous would put up after hacking a news website.
Big deal.
You can always run defrag.
(You might have to develop a utility for it yourself though.)
He really did mean literally. Obviously the hard drive is thrashing constantly causing the machine to vibrate and move slowly across his desk.
Repeal the 17th Amendment TODAY! Also Please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
First, a headline and one sentence about someone accused of murder, then it goes off on a complete, random tangent about butt-drugs?
Is it too much to expect a summary that is related to the headline? Seriously, guys, this is getting pathetic.
Why didn't people make such a big deal with Edward Norton was caught curb stomping some black guy b/c his daddy's truck was shot up?
Yes. He long ago lost his brain. And the authorities will find him! ,,,, he used the internet to reply to a reporter's questions about this! Tagged (on the street).... Soon to be Bagged (after being shot in the head) ... Toe Tagged ... with a tag on his right foot big toe in the morgue.
No tears from me.
Oh. When the body is unclaimed they will grind him up and burn him. Then send the ash to the dump. What a way to go! But he bought this ... like Obama ... didn't he.
XD
dude's a drug addict trying to get back to his first high:
"P.S. I have found many of "The One" in my past relationships - where nothing else exists except the object of my heart's desire, and it was certainly awesome each time, and I'm sure many of the other contributors to this forum have also found "The One". It would be odd to be an adult and not to have done so. So don't assume that we all just "haven't found the One yet". It's just that history, and observation of daily life, predicts that "The One" burns out just as rapidly as all of the "not the ones", if not more rapidly. "A light twice as bright burns half as long" after all.
so is false sense of complacency
the class of drugs we are talking about are incredibly powerful, and the important thing is to emphasize care and the danger involved with using them. education is the proper antidote to hysteria
minimizing the danger and just calling that danger hysteria is just as ignorant and problematic as the hysteria over drugs that bothers you
a good drug user is a careful, educated drug user
this should be the primary focus any time you talk about a drug like bath salts
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
McAfee, this is Reiser. Reiser, McAfee.
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) or as the illiterate OP said "whatever you want to call it" CAN and DOES
in fact get taken up by the community.
Mcaffee AV software is NOT free or open source or any combination thereof.
The whole reason there exists Malware / AV software / criminals abusing it / phishing, etc. is because
of the fact that Microsoft CHOSE to make all its software be able to run Windows 3.1 software forever and ever.
That one choice by one company, and the choice by billions of people to blindly run their operating systems
instead of FOSS operating systems... THAT'S why we have a big problem today.
Mcafee is not FOSS and it will die.
Microsoft is not FOSS and -- surprisingly enough -- it too will die.
Now stop smoking crack and talking about things you won't understand till you're old enough to drive.
M
"The scariest aspect of this story may be the fact that an entire lab was constructed for John McAfee's research purposes."
Um, no. The scariest aspect is that he is implicated in the murder of someone.
Little did they mention that it means having to keep a personal standing army around, negotiating with other local power brokers,
All that can be avoided if there exists a government which makes recreational drugs illegal, right?
just sayin'
FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) or as the illiterate OP said "whatever you want to call it"
I am hardly illiterate about the Open Source community, my main point in stating it that was was recognizing that there are different groups - some simply call it Open Source, others Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), and still others Free, Libre, Open Source Software (F/LOSS). Each does so for its own reason. The GP called it Open Source; you called it FOSS - and honestly, while I certainly understand what each is trying to signify - namely how much freedom - it's not really important what it is called; rather the principles behind them all are important.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. - Elvis Presley (source: imdb.com)
" it's simply that it's the sort of country where if you're a rich cunt "
Ah, and a "rich cunt" is someone who doesn't want to support you through life.
Lets face it, you're what would normally be called "excess population" if people were allowed to tell the truth.
You demand food, you demand health care, you demand early retirement, you demand a nice place to live.
And all the while you're fucking your girlfriend/wife and sitting by starbucks complaining about those "rich cunts" who are paying your way through life.
What is it like being so dependent on other people? What is lit like being envious of people who actually produce something of value?
In short: what is it like being something that is a parasite on the earth, and your fellow man?
Your existence is not one to be proud of. If you were to disappear tomorrow, everyone would be better off. Everyone.
does MDPV really works like an aphrodisic? from my quick readings of the russian bluelight it doesn'l look like it works - maybe for a few people. maybe women? i read comments from men i suppose.
don't forget Stefan Eriksson
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I wouldn't advise trying to live in a compound in the Belize jungle without a large amount of firepower.
They probably came with the house.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
keep getting weirder: https://twitter.com/McAfeeMessages
The government wants to kill him? Sorry, but this guy has clearly gone off the deep end. Not hindered by any actual knowledge about the case I'd say there's a good chance he did this. What a bizarre story.