McAfee May Have Been Captured

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McAfee May Have Been Captured

Posted by Unknown on Sunday December 2, 2012 @12:59PM from the when-executives-go-crazy dept.

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."

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They thought they had him! by CajunArson · 2012-12-02 13:05 · Score: 5, Funny

They thought they had him, but turns out it was a false positive.

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1. Re:They thought they had him! by girlintraining · 2012-12-02 13:21 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  They thought they had him, but turns out it was a false positive.
  "This user has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." -- PoliceOS (Belize Edition)
  
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2. Re:They thought they had him! by jones_supa · 2012-12-02 18:23 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Back in high school one guy encountered the message "netscape.exe has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down", and pondered "why would just going to a website be illegal?"
FTFY by girlintraining · 2012-12-02 13:08 · Score: 4, Insightful

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.

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1. Re:FTFY by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-02 13:13 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  He doesn't have a full deck of cards anymore.
  That's true, but if he can hit that bullseye the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!
2. Re:FTFY by Aryeh+Goretsky · 2012-12-02 18:00 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  Hello,
  
  I have actually been reading Dr. McAfee's blog, The Hinterland, since it started, as well as his replies to comments and listened to his interviews. I also worked for him for about eleven years across different companies and have known him for about twice as long.
  
  While at times Dr. McAfee does sound like he is under stress and duressâ"he's snapped at a number of commentators at times for not reading earlier blog postsâ"he has remained cogent and lucid throughout these events, and a determination to see justice done: Dr. McAfee has offered an award of $25,000BZ (about $12,500USD) for information leading to the capture and arrest of the murderer of his neighbor, which is more than anyone else has done, including the government down there. He has also shown occasional glimpses of a wry sense of humor about how things are going, which seems to indicate a full understanding of the situation and use of his faculties.
  
  While there are a lot of things about this case which do not make sense, there are a quite a few which do, such as Dr. McAfee's increasing difficulties with Belizean politicians when he refused to pay them bribes. This has been documented in the Belizean press.
  
  Your comments about Dr. McAfee sound mean spirited and based more on wishful thinking than anything else.
  
  Regards,
  
  Aryeh Goretsky
  
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I hope he has a speedy... by Lord_of_the_nerf · 2012-12-02 13:14 · Score: 5, Funny

....30 day trial.
Quarantined by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-02 13:20 · Score: 5, Funny

He hasn't been captured, he's been quarantined.
1. Re:Quarantined by hackingbear · 2012-12-02 14:54 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Do you want to fix or erase him?
Dupe by chill · 2012-12-02 13:24 · Score: 4, Interesting

I don't mean the article, I mean all the "jokes" in the replies.

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Re:Why is McAfee's affair on Slashdot? by Darkness404 · 2012-12-02 13:25 · Score: 5, Insightful

Um, because it's about a pretty important person in technology? It makes more sense to post about something major like this than whether Linus Torvalds likes GNOME or KDE.

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Re:Why is McAfee's affair on Slashdot? by lostmongoose · 2012-12-02 13:27 · Score: 5, Insightful

The man hasn't been 'pretty important' or even relevant to technology in over a decade and even then the only relevance he had was in creating the world's worst AV software.
Re:Why is McAfee's affair on Slashdot? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-02 13:48 · Score: 5, Informative

I guess it depends when you were reading it. In 2006 the Hans Reiser murder case started, which also got a lot of attention.
They should have used... by DuranDuran · 2012-12-02 13:54 · Score: 5, Funny

They should have used 64 bits. Then McAfee wouldn't run.

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not "antivirus pioneer" by globaljustin · 2012-12-02 14:00 · Score: 4, Interesting

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.

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1. Re:not "antivirus pioneer" by greg1104 · 2012-12-02 15:01 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  Bubble-era businessman? McAfee resigned from McAfee Associates in 1994. You might as well reference the Dutch tulip bubble, that's just as relevant.
  When McAfee Associates started in 1987, it was only shortly after the very first IBM PC viruses (The Brain boot sector/Pakistani flu) appeared. And when the first PC virus mania hit, the 1992 Michelangelo scare, many of us used the shareware McAfee anti-virus program to check if our computers were infected. That era, his 1987 to 1992 work, was where the pioneer label comes from.
Re:Why is McAfee's affair on Slashdot? by Lord_of_the_nerf · 2012-12-02 14:30 · Score: 5, Funny

It's an excuse to take a very serious situation and to make security/software/virus puns about it.
The Slashdot I used to visit was always like this.
Re:Even if... by Rob+the+Bold · 2012-12-02 15:12 · Score: 4, Informative

They have no reason to hold him other than being suspected for a crime in the US. If they captured him, they'd let the world know how helpful they were being.
Didn't the crime in question occur in Belize?

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Re:The twist... by darkpixel2k · 2012-12-02 15:12 · Score: 5, Funny

... he was using a Linux laptop with ReiserFS the time of the murder.
Can we stop with the ReiserFS jokes already? The meme has been beaten to death.

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Re:New website for that? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-02 15:18 · Score: 4, Funny

Dotcolon? It could have the logo
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Re:"girl" in your userid gets automatic +5 mods. by Gaygirlie · 2012-12-02 17:42 · Score: 4, Insightful

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As a female person I cannot help but feel that you have some petty, childish axe to grind. Did you steal it from Toys 'R' Us? I mean, I don't see my own comments automatically getting upvotes. Most of the time my comments don't get voted either way, and atleast I view that as a good thing; when you don't automatically get upvoted to +5 every time you post something you can actually consider your comment score as somewhat proper feedback.