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McAfee May Have Been Captured
netbuzz writes with a quick update about John McAfee on the run. From the article: "A blog being maintained for the past three weeks by antivirus pioneer John McAfee and others is claiming to have received "an unconfirmed report" that McAfee has been captured near the border of Belize and Mexico. However, authorities in Belize say that report is not true and that the whereabouts of McAfee, wanted for questioning as a 'person of interest' after the Nov. 11 murder of his neighbor, remain unknown."
They thought they had him, but turns out it was a false positive.
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
When they get him, they should then hold him responsible for the barrels of shit that his company has produced. Hopefully he'll end up shooting his dick off and bleeding out.
I found the problem: They haven't updated their viru--er, law enforcement definition files. That's why the average user should always have auto-update enabled. In other news... McAfee is clearly suffering from some kind of mental disorder beyond simply having homocidal issues, and it's probably due to drugs, maybe even bath salts. He's showing clear evidence of paranoid delusions and his blog posts seem increasingly detached from reality. The only reason he's been able to hold out this long is because he has a lot of money -- way more than the government trying to catch him. Money covers up a lot of intellectual deficits, but he can't stay ahead of them forever because he's a wounded animal; He doesn't have a full deck of cards anymore.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
He is still in hiding though because he is afraid (rightly so) of being extradited or killed.
RIP, John McAfee
....30 day trial.
just update the virus files to kill prison control.sys
He hasn't been captured, he's been quarantined.
Why is Slashdot carrying a piece about an alleged murder case?
It has nothing to do with technology and the murder weapon ain't high tech either.
Can't Slashdot make up its mind what it wants to be?
Just because it's McAfee it must be "newsworthy" for Slashdot?
I dunno.
The Slashdot I used to visit wasn't like this.
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
I don't mean the article, I mean all the "jokes" in the replies.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Hebhas been quarantined
Did they put him in quarantine? Or, they just denied him access to running?
Apparently he had a virus so he was running slow.
Even if they had him, I kinda doubt they'd admit to it. He could very likely be sitting in a very tiny, very dark little cell for all anyone knows.
They should have used 64 bits. Then McAfee wouldn't run.
"You can justify anything by putting it in quotes, adding a famous name and making it a sig" - Albert Einstein
The only reason he's been able to hold out this long is because he has a lot of money -- way more than the government trying to catch him. http://phanmemtiger.com/
... he was using a Linux laptop with ReiserFS the time of the murder.
Labeling what McAfee did as "antivirus pioneer" does a disservice to both terms and makes anyone who reads it stupiderer...
As far as I can tell (I wasn't a crypto-analyst or infosec tech in the 80s) McAfee was good at getting government contracts and paying people to write software for him.
That is **not** pioneering anything...that's **above average** level **business management**....really nothing he did professionally was extraordinary or ideologically noteworthy whatsoever. He was a standard bubble-era businessman.
We do ourselves a serious harm by not making distinctions between who does the work and who manages the company.
Thank you Dave Raggett
After this threat has been identified, do we quarantine him? Or do we delete forever?
The rumors of my capture have been greatly exaggerated....
People's faces at 7he resignation
Attention mods: When assholes like this complain about a story not meeting the "News for Nerds" requirements, mod them into oblivion. These comments are getting out of hand and people like UID# 5327 are repeat offenders. Let's try to keep the threads clean.
We should probably start a new website devoted specifically to tech-famous people shoving drugs up their rears. Assdot?
Which one is the 'anykey'?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5GmwSgCfn38
i gotta believe the dude had some bad karma wracked up. Like, we're talking worse than my slashdot karma.
The man hasn't been 'pretty important' or even relevant to technology in over a decade
That may be the case be he is still widely known and "affected" many lives through his resource-hogging software.
Bill Gates fits almost the same profile, if it were him you would argue that story did not belong here?
I would argue if nothing else the story sort of belongs because he;s basically a geek and geeks like hearing about other geeks living at the edges of existence.
Personally despite being deeply angered by his software over the years, I'm still rooting for McAfee.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
... They have to completely uninstall their current justice system, first.
Seriously, it's true. Even better to be an actual girl. Poseurs like "Raven" Alder can cut and paste text from a cookie recipe and still get automagically upmodded to +5 every time.
Prior to this, McAfee was getting harassed by the local police for not paying bribe money and got his house raided a few times.
I wouldnt put it past the local police to have killed his neighbor.
Listen to what is being said.....
There are reports that McAfee has been captured by police.
The police deny they have captured him.
So, if the police in Belize dispatched McAfee, (ala his predictions), they could always claim they never had him in their custody.
It all fits! He was right all along.
McAfee, and his excuses for not cooperating to me seem really lame.. He has a high profile persona because of who he is, so crying foul over possibly getting shot while arrested, or being falsely accused is a little to much for me to believe. Even in a country that appears to be known for corrupt police.
Simply due to media involvement...........
Listening to the BBC on NPR they had an interview from some source were McAfee was whining how they arrested just about anyone around his home, the neighbor, his own maid, ect.. All in an attempt to get to to turn himself in. The media or press would be covering the story from start to finish since he is not a "normal" or Native citizen, so for him to act the way is really suspect.
Having said that I do see they way other countries recklessly convict people with no evidence, regardless of them being native or American and there is really nothing (or so the US claims) the US government can do to help those out who really are innocent.
Did mommy drop a copy of Atlas Shrugged on your head?
And the Belize police are denying it cause they want to disappear him just like he said?
So he left the US because he didn't want to pay taxes, and now finds that instead he has to bribe politicians. Life is so hard for the rich.
No. Who the hell are you to say that when you're not even his peer? Nobody, and nothing. Zero. You're an armchair quarterback at best.
The amount of speculation happening on Slashdot here is palpable. I guess all it takes to make headlines now days is for someone to post unverified information, and then have someone else blog about said information.
Crimey
All jokes aside, if McAfee is right and Belize authorities want him dead, this is exactly how they'd make him disappear. Capture him, kill him, dump his body, and then claim he was never in custody.
Genocide Man -- Life is funny. Death is funnier. Mass murder can be hilarious.
Admin posts a story, someone whines that it's not really "news for nerds". Same as it ever was.
I hope you didn't pay much for the 4-digit account.
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They've hired Norton to find him...............
Erratic behavior is not out of the norm for highly intelligent "tech" types. Perhaps it is the psychopathic tendency that makes CEO's so effective.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2011/06/14/why-some-psychopaths-make-great-ceos/
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1222162--psychopathy-and-the-ceo-top-executives-have-four-times-the-incidence-of-psychopathy-as-the-rest-of-us
Here's a handy McAfee Timeline I made.