Interview: Ask John McAfee What You Will

why run by fazey · 2013-05-02 04:51 · Score: 5, Interesting

Why did you run if you had nothing to hide?

Re:why run by Jeremiah+Cornelius · 2013-05-02 05:43 · Score: 4, Interesting

Where is Sam? I understand that she risked a lot, and can be credited largely with saving your life. What happened to her when you surrendered to authorities, and what are the current efforts being made to secure her safety? What are the prospects for allowing her legal immigration status to the United States? When is she in her own reality series on cable?

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Re:why run by CanHasDIY · 2013-05-02 06:18 · Score: 0

Why did you run if you had nothing to hide?
Aaww, he must think that governments never go on witch hunts!
Such naïveté would be funny, if it weren't so dangerous.

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Re:why run by Jeremiah+Cornelius · 2013-05-02 06:20 · Score: 0

Why did you run if you had nothing to hide?
Provocative. Why not ask David Janssen or Will Smith?

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Re:why run by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 07:03 · Score: 1

Why not ask why you post host file spam?
Re:why run by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 08:47 · Score: 0

I forget, are you APK or APK's imposter?
Re:why run by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 09:26 · Score: 0

APK isn't all he's cracked up to be. His life is a baffling maze of unexplained scandals, vanishing relatives, MDMA profiteering, and visits from the Pentagon. In fact, APK may very well be a danger to society.
According to the Pentagon documents recently obtained using the Freedom of Information Act, if you "like" poverty on Facebook, you are automatically added to a watchlist that contains “dissidents and other undesirables.”
Do you know that if you post a tweet about #MDMA and APK, it will "mysteriously" disappear from your page within minutes?
The toothpaste provided to soldiers at most military bases in America contains extremely high levels of MDMA-- but little to no actual toothpaste.
Re: why run by FuzzNugget · 2013-05-02 09:54 · Score: 3, Interesting

Are you fucking kidding me? Who wouldn't run when faced against the thuggery of modern law enforcement? Running has *nothing* to do with guilt or innocence, and everything to do with an extreme and quite rational aversion to being ensnared and railroaded into a ruinous legal situation.
Re:why run by AmiMoJo · 2013-05-02 10:05 · Score: 1

Everyone has things to hide and you often can't trust the authorities to treat you fairly.
A more interesting question might be: What is it like to realize that you can't trust the police and the justice system, and take the decision to go on the run?

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Re:why run by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 11:15 · Score: 0

This is the one thing I was wondering as well. He probably just ditched her in Mexico once he got his free ride home. I hope she made it back ok.
Re: why run by fazey · 2013-05-02 14:13 · Score: 2

I never said it did. I simply asked why.
Re:why run by ShieldW0lf · 2013-05-03 00:05 · Score: 1

Hi John,
I understand that you set up a drug lab in your home and spent your time experimenting with the way that Bath Salts increased the enjoyment you got sleeping with young girls.
What did you learn from your experience?

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Re:why run by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-04 06:10 · Score: 0

You fail it, Paul. Your skill is not enough.
Re:why run by tortal · 2013-05-05 02:59 · Score: 1

Why did you run if you had nothing to hide?
have you been readin the vice report? did you follow this from the beginning? As other mentioned here, McAfee is far from being an ,in colloquial terms, "attention-whore" . Hide? Sure he was probably a "shaman" experimenting w/ different substances. But please rephrase yourself, rather than interrogate, if you actually now have an opportunity to do so.
Re:why run by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-08 03:33 · Score: 0

Why did you run if you had nothing to hide?
You haven't read anything about his story have you moron?

What Happened with Vice.com? by eldavojohn · 2013-05-02 04:52 · Score: 5, Interesting

While you were moving around, Vice.com got to spend time with you. If memory serves me, it was later revealed that the image they uploaded with you had GPS data that you then claimed to be spoofed. Coincidentally the news styled documentary they were going to do with you never seemed to surface ... now that things have died down can you give more context to that whole situation?

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How can you even move with your giant balls? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 04:54 · Score: 1, Funny

Reading about your exploits, it is clear that you have giant, swinging balls.

How were you able to evade the police while dragging around those giant, bean-bag sized balls?

Re:How can you even move with your giant balls? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:30 · Score: 1

He bounces on them like a hoppity hop
Re:How can you even move with your giant balls? by MugenEJ8 · 2013-05-02 05:45 · Score: 1

Thanks for the worst pangs ever...

McAfee Antivirus by AmiMoJo · 2013-05-02 04:54 · Score: 5, Interesting

Doesn't it bother you that your name is being used to peddle one of the worst anti-virus products on the market? Often it comes pre-installed on computers as a 30 day trial (crapware), with dire warnings flashed up in the event that the user fails to pay (scareware). The performance hit it brings is huge. Would you advise anyone else to name their product/company after themselves in this way?

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Re:McAfee Antivirus by captbob2002 · 2013-05-02 05:24 · Score: 2

it may be a resource hog and really slow a machine down, but at least it misses most viruses and malware.
Was so thrilled when our campus IT folks finally dumped McAfee.
Re:McAfee Antivirus by Twinbee · 2013-05-02 05:43 · Score: 1, Interesting

Personally, I'd rather have a real virus than install McAfee, but download.com and softpedia.com's users rate their stuff at 3 or 4 out of 5. Beats me, but could be the placebo effect, or maybe it's better than many of us think (not that that's saying much) ?

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Re:McAfee Antivirus by Capt.DrumkenBum · 2013-05-02 05:52 · Score: 1

I really don't have anything to add, but I would love to see the answer to this question.
Although next time don't sugar coat your description of that piece of unmitigated shit.

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Re:McAfee Antivirus by bfandreas · 2013-05-02 05:57 · Score: 1

Also the infection vector is just a little bit less bad than common malware. You have to be extra hawkeyed to spot all the checkboxes it might lurk beneath. It ranks just there with browser toolbars and monkey punchers.

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Re:McAfee Antivirus by HornWumpus · 2013-05-02 07:43 · Score: 1

Came to ask this.
Also do you (McAfee) and Peter Norton argue about who's name is being dragged through worse piles of shit?
Followup question: Are you contractually restrained from saying what you think about McAfee antivirus?

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Re:McAfee Antivirus by jimmynwade · 2013-05-02 08:33 · Score: 1

I'm guessing you're at a state school in Ohio.
Re:McAfee Antivirus by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 09:43 · Score: 1

AV Comparatives Real-World Protection Test

Actually doesn't look too bad compared to the others. I'm sure that's much more Intel's doing than this batshit crazy anal bath salts guy.
Re:McAfee Antivirus by BitZtream · 2013-05-02 14:16 · Score: 1

McAfee antivirus was never particularly impressive from a technical point of view. McAfee's brightest moments in his career were when he basically took something known in other industries and applied to obvious places in computing.
I don't even think the US patent office would call what he did non-trivial.

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Re:McAfee Antivirus by Aryeh+Goretsky · 2013-05-02 15:33 · Score: 1

Hello,
I think you are being a bit unfair here. While Mr. McAfee's ideas may see commonplace now after twenty-five years of having anti-virus software, at the time he applied them, it was quite novel. Also, the programs that Mr. McAfee was responsible for in the DOS era (SENTRY, VIRUSCAN, CLEAN-UP, VSHIELD, etc.) were pretty much state-of-the-art at that time.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
At Thursday May 02, 2013 @07:16PM, BitZtream (692029) wrote: > > McAfee antivirus was never particularly impressive from a technical point of view. McAfee's brightest > moments in his career were when he basically took something known in other industries and applied > to obvious places in computing. > > I don't even think the US patent office would call what he did non-trivial.

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Re:McAfee Antivirus by Xest · 2013-05-02 20:12 · Score: 1

30 day trial? You should be so lucky. The last laptop I bought came with something pathetic like a 3, or 5 day trial. As if that's enough time to test it as a virus protection option anyway.
Yes, it's gotten that bad.

What would you do differently? by oic0 · 2013-05-02 04:55 · Score: 4, Interesting

If you had to relive the whole debacle, what would you do differently the second time around.

Re:What would you do differently? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:09 · Score: 0, Insightful

Probably more bath salts up the ass.
Re:What would you do differently? by ArhcAngel · 2013-05-02 07:56 · Score: 0

Please specify which debacle you are referencing. The Anti-Virus product or the events that transpired in Belize.

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Natural Antibotics by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 04:56 · Score: 3, Interesting

How far along were the natural antibotics? were they still in animal testing or had they reached human testing?

The GSU Raid and the Unnamed Politician by eldavojohn · 2013-05-02 04:57 · Score: 4, Interesting

Almost exactly one year ago your dog was killed (my sympathies), your passport was confiscated and your house searched by a Gang Suppression Unit (GSU) while you lived in Belize. Why not publicly name names and provide as much detailed evidence as possible to reveal this horrible corruption and abuse of something that is supposed to stop crime? Who was it that tried to extort political money from you? Is there anyway to verify?

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Re:The GSU Raid and the Unnamed Politician by jimbolauski · 2013-05-02 06:59 · Score: 0

You should never talk to the police or comment on an ongoing case, there is no benefit for doing so. Even when you are completely innocent you can still risk incriminating your self. Here is a link to a 40 minute video on why is it never in you benifit to talk to police.
Don't Talk to the police.

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What was the problem? by lazylion · 2013-05-02 04:58 · Score: 4, Interesting

If I understand correctly, this whole episode began because a local politician visited you in your home and he had the expectation (for whatever reason) that you would pay him USD $30,000 as some kind of protection money for his campaign and your expectation was that politicians are supposed to work for people and not the other way around. Is this a reasonable characterization? If so, how do you think such a large missmatch in expectations came about? Do you think you were overly naive? Or is the political environment in Belize changing? I can easily believe that this might be the normal expected way that people do business down there based on other things I've heard, but I really have no idea. Now that you've had time to reflect, what would you say was responsible for the conflict in the first place?

How can I avoid getting McAfee AV with Java? by xxxJonBoyxxx · 2013-05-02 04:59 · Score: 0

Dear Mr. McAfee,

How can I avoid getting that annoying McAfee AntiVirus trial in all my Java installs?

(I kid. I kid.)

Re:How can I avoid getting McAfee AV with Java? by amicusNYCL · 2013-05-02 05:42 · Score: 2

That's an easy one. Don't install Java.

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Re:How can I avoid getting McAfee AV with Java? by tepples · 2013-05-02 08:12 · Score: 1

How should one play Minecraft without Java? Or do you recommend giving up Minecraft as well?
Re:How can I avoid getting McAfee AV with Java? by amicusNYCL · 2013-05-02 09:03 · Score: 1

If Minecraft is something you refuse to live without, then maybe people like you can lobby the vendor for a version that doesn't use Java. But, take it from a person who has never played Minecraft: you can live without it.

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Re:How can I avoid getting McAfee AV with Java? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 10:55 · Score: 1

That isn't living, that's surviving.
Re:How can I avoid getting McAfee AV with Java? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 12:17 · Score: 0

All those smokers who claim to be "addicted" are wrong. You can live without it. Believe me, I've never smoked.

Sex with under aiged girls by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:00 · Score: 0

So are you a pedofile from american standards.

Re:Sex with under aiged girls by kthreadd · 2013-05-02 05:39 · Score: 1

Maybe says something about the american standards.
Re:Sex with under aiged girls by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 07:01 · Score: 2, Interesting

Is a pedofile a tool for scraping the callouses off one's feet?

what's your favorite current drug? by Trepidity · 2013-05-02 05:00 · Score: 5, Funny

You've been quoted as partial to freebase MDPV:

I'm a huge fan of MDPV. Not the white hydrochloride - it's inconceivable that anyone on the planet would willingly put that into their bodies -- I'm talking the freebase form. I think many of you that don't bother to freebase it yourself have at least tasted the freebase version when it was widely available as "tan mdpv". I think it's the finest drug evere conceived, not just for the indescribable hypersexuality, but also for the smooth euphoria and mild comedown.

Do you still stick to this opinion? Are you sure it's the finest drug ever conceived? If you're unwavering in that view, what would you rank as the second or third drugs in the chemical hall of fame?

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What's it like? by pseudofrog · 2013-05-02 05:01 · Score: 1, Troll

What does it feel like to kill a man?

Re:What's it like? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:19 · Score: 2, Funny

It's a topic Esmeralda Villalobos is very interested in.

A/V part of the problem? by girlintraining · 2013-05-02 05:02 · Score: 1, Insightful

There are a lot of other ways to protect a system from malware than signature scanning. In fact, I would go as far as to say this technology is outmodded. With the considerable resources available to your company, why aren't you guys developing whitelists to validate executable code on a workstation and building a trusted computing platform so only executable code which has been verified can be executed?

Vendors such as Microsoft, Adobe, etc., do release many versions of their software, but these versions can all be verified, byte by byte, on the day of release. Malware, of course, has to be found first, and then a signature developed. As your target market is primarily corporate users, for which software doesn't get updated as often and is already audited and catalogued, why does your company continue to avoid embracing such technology?

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Re:A/V part of the problem? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:14 · Score: 0

Its not his company any more Einstein.
Re:A/V part of the problem? by girlintraining · 2013-05-02 07:03 · Score: 1, Troll

Its not his company any more Einstein.
Tripwire was created in the 80s, when it was. And the company still has his name on the door... he's involved, even if he isn't the owner anymore, Einstein. But apparently, Slashdot wants to ask him potentially incriminating questions about his personal life instead of talking about the technology.
You guys should be ashamed to call yourselves nerds. This is crap for People magazine, not a tech news site.

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Re:A/V part of the problem? by liamevo · 2013-05-02 08:06 · Score: 1

In what world does a company continuing to use it's founders name which has substantial investment in that brand, mean the founder is still involved with the company?
Re:A/V part of the problem? by girlintraining · 2013-05-02 11:41 · Score: 1

In what world does a company continuing to use it's founders name which has substantial investment in that brand, mean the founder is still involved with the company?
Does Bill Gates still have influence at Microsoft? Yeah, it usually does, actually.

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Re:A/V part of the problem? by BitZtream · 2013-05-02 14:20 · Score: 1

He has had no involvement in the company in years. McAfee was bought out by intel. Intel wants nothing to do with someone who in his prime wasn't particularly impressive, and is 30 years past his prime and rants and raves like a 17 year old emo hopped up on coke and ecstasy.

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Re:A/V part of the problem? by flandre · 2013-05-02 17:59 · Score: 1

or bath salts
Re:A/V part of the problem? by ElderKorean · 2013-05-02 18:27 · Score: 1

In what world does a company continuing to use it's founders name which has substantial investment in that brand, mean the founder is still involved with the company?
In Australia, Dick Smith, the electronics company (much like Tandy) is still named after the founder. He sold the company to Woolworths in 1982, and re-sold to Anchorage Capital Partners last year.
They don't go after the electronics hobbyists much anymore, but more the general public now - so many things have been dumbed down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Smith_(entrepreneur) has nothing to do with the stores now, apart from his good name which still holds a lot of power
(Slashdot, please can you add a login button the the editing page when you submit a comment)
Re:A/V part of the problem? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 18:45 · Score: 0

You mean like this?
http://www.mcafee.com/us/products/application-control.aspx
Re:A/V part of the problem? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 19:59 · Score: 0

McAfee do have that capability. It's called Application Control. It's part of Solidcore along with Change Control and Integrity Control. Also, McAfee have host intrusion prevention which is behavioural rather than signature based. McAfee have approx 40 different products and it's so funny that people focus on AV, the one that's pretty irrelevant nowadays.
Disclaimer, yes I'm a McAfee engineer.
Re:A/V part of the problem? by NateTech · 2013-05-03 14:20 · Score: 1

You've obviously never been to an Intel inside investor party. LOL!

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Did you kill the guy? by fredrated · 2013-05-02 05:02 · Score: 3, Interesting

Did you?

Bath Salts by hairyfeet · 2013-05-02 05:03 · Score: 4, Interesting

Do you still believe in the wonders of the drugs known as "bath salts" which you wrote so many glowing reviews about?

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Re:Bath Salts by DigiShaman · 2013-05-02 15:26 · Score: 1

...and what do they taste like?

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Re:Bath Salts by dantotheman · 2013-05-03 13:57 · Score: 1

salty...
Re:Bath Salts by iggymanz · 2013-05-07 08:45 · Score: 1

the salts, or people's faces?

Um, no by EmagGeek · 2013-05-02 05:03 · Score: 5, Insightful

I am not interested the least in what John McAfee has to say about anything, nor reading what will ultimately be spun into a John McAfee publicity puff piece by the Dice Masters.

Re:Um, no by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 07:54 · Score: 1

No one cares about what you put on your pancakes, son.

Why George Jung? by eldavojohn · 2013-05-02 05:05 · Score: 5, Interesting

"Boston George" Jung (a man who has lived quite an unusual life himself) has been tapped to write McAfee's biography titled, No Domain.

I don't get it. Jung is a convicted drug smuggler. You have had no such charges ever filed against you (to my knowledge) by the United States so, if nothing more than a publicity stunt, why did you pick him to write your biography? If you feel you are wrongly accused, I can understand why you would pick someone wrongly accused to write your biography -- they can relate. But George Jung was certainly a key part of Pablo Escobar's deadly and pervasive criminal organization. You are (again, to my knowledge) far from that so why bait the readers with that author as a link? I have had very little associations with you and illegal drug activity but now I think you view yourself as a modern George Jung, am I wrong in making this assumption?

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Re:Why George Jung? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:38 · Score: 0

Jung is a convicted drug smuggler.
So? Why should that disqualify him? Prohibitionists are just as criminal, if not more so.
Re:Why George Jung? by BitZtream · 2013-05-02 14:26 · Score: 1

George Jung is not a moonshiner just trying to sell a few bottles of white lightning to his neighbors. He was a facilitator in the largest drug operation of its time.
Slightly different levels.

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Re:Why George Jung? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-03 05:06 · Score: 0

So what? The market is big enough to accommodate.. People should just stay out of the way, and nobody will get hurt.

Did you learn your lesson? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:05 · Score: 2, Interesting

Did you learn your lesson, that playing Breaking Bad's "Heisenberg" in real life doesn't work out so well?

Or, are you going to continue making drugs and playing with drug lords?

German tourist disguise by coldsalmon · 2013-05-02 05:06 · Score: 3, Funny

Did you really evade the police by dressing up in a speedo and screaming at people in German, as you describe here: http://www.whoismcafee.com/watchfulness/

How about by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:10 · Score: 1

Asking him the latest slashtod poll, "How often do friends/family call you for tech support?"

Computer Security by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:10 · Score: 5, Funny

What are your thoughts on using a HOSTS file to help minimize your exposure to computer malware and protect your system? This seems to be a topic of HUGE debate here at SlashDot. Here's hoping an expert can chime in for once!

Thanks, and, Bob Bless

Re:Computer Security by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:36 · Score: 0

That's funny right there.
Re:Computer Security by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 06:26 · Score: 2, Insightful

Will you shut up please before that annoying bastard shows up again?
Re:Computer Security by tepples · 2013-05-02 09:41 · Score: 1

Before this becomes a big APK bitchfest, I'm trying to summarize arguments for and against hostname-based DNS filtering scoped to a single machine on this page.
Re:Computer Security by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 18:08 · Score: 0

I don't know what you want out of that, that hasn't already been said.
Re:Computer Security by tepples · 2013-05-03 01:25 · Score: 1

Mostly any arguments I missed, or other people's tools that are useful for managing hosts files.

Madness by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:12 · Score: 0

Why you so crazy, dawg?

We all want to know by Rix · 2013-05-02 05:12 · Score: 1

What exactly were you smoking?

Have you ever told us by GameboyRMH · 2013-05-02 05:14 · Score: 1

Have you ever told us the definition of insanity?

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Re:Have you ever told us by GameboyRMH · 2013-05-02 05:15 · Score: 1

Damn, meant to post as AC...I can't help myself -_-

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Re:Have you ever told us by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:21 · Score: 0

insanity. n.
doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

Are You Nerval's Lobster? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:15 · Score: 0

Nerval's Lobster is a master of disguise, craves constant attention and somehow manages to get lots of publicity through provocative madness. The only other comparable figure in the tech universe is John McAfee... so tell us... have you been moonlighting as Nerval's Lobster?

Whats better, two 18 years old... by zo2004 · 2013-05-02 05:15 · Score: 2

or one 36 years old? Any other combinations you would recommend? Screw software, tell us some fun stories.. :)

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Re:Whats better, two 18 years old... by Chris+Mattern · 2013-05-02 05:48 · Score: 2

I'd advise against four 9 year olds.
Re:Whats better, two 18 years old... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 07:12 · Score: 0

Whats better, two 18 years old or one 36 years old? Any other combinations you would recommend? Screw software, tell us some fun stories.. :)
I'd advise against four 9 year olds.
Half a 72-year old wouldn't be particularly wholesome either, regardless of which half it was.
Re:Whats better, two 18 years old... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 07:19 · Score: 0

Or half of a 72-year-old.
Re:Whats better, two 18 years old... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 11:36 · Score: 0

What about sharing a whole 72 year old with a very good friend?

Might as well get this out of the way by slashmydots · 2013-05-02 05:15 · Score: 0, Troll

My and every Slashdot reader's first question is: fuck you.

On Hezbollah, Zetas and MDPV by eldavojohn · 2013-05-02 05:17 · Score: 3, Interesting

Ars Technica ran an inditing article on your sanity in which you made statements on the virtues of MDPV (bath salts), having three informants in the Zeta Cartel and also informants in Nicaragua that had made contact with Hezbollah's camp. To put my question succinctly: what the hell, man? Where have your James "Psychonaut" Bond travels taken you to recently?

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As a microbiologist... by acidfast7 · 2013-05-02 05:17 · Score: 5, Interesting

I'm very interested in hearing about the natural antibiotics. Can you please describe some general background about how you became interested in the project and what happened to the project?

Re:As a microbiologist... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:39 · Score: 0

Aren't almost all antibiotics natural? Some are synthetically mass produced, but isn't the origin of almost all antibiotics natural?
Re:As a microbiologist... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 07:02 · Score: 0

I think "natural antibiotics" really means "recreational drugs". Language must be interpreted contextually.

what do you think? by duhjim · 2013-05-02 05:19 · Score: 1

"Time is a number
gone to HELL,
and all of nature
its flesh in ruins."

CISPA and SOPA by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:20 · Score: 0

What is your opinion regarding CISPA and SOPA.
Do you have any concerns regarding this legislation that you wish our lawmakers should know?

Re:choice of stims by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:22 · Score: 0

what are your three favorite "stimulant research chemicals" and why?

Re:Can you help score me some LSD? by gravious · 2013-05-02 05:23 · Score: 1

Uh, don't you mean draw a line? Crossing that line is a whole other ball game if you'll allow me to wantonly mix metaphors. Other than that, you have my blessing, and I'll keep you in my prayers.

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Re:anti-vir tactics by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:24 · Score: 0

cite plz.

To insult you properly by 0xdeadbeef · 2013-05-02 05:25 · Score: 5, Funny

Is it pronounced MAC-a-fee or Muh-CAF-ee?

Re:To insult you properly by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 06:22 · Score: 0

I always thought it was "Mick-aff-ee"
Re:To insult you properly by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 10:20 · Score: 0

It's actually spelled Make-a-fee
Re:To insult you properly by DigiShaman · 2013-05-02 15:29 · Score: 1

Oh ya, that's pretty fucking costly when you factor in all the servers it eats.

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Re:To insult you properly by Aryeh+Goretsky · 2013-05-02 15:35 · Score: 1

Hello,
It is pronounced "MACK-uh-FEE."
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky

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The whole Cat and Mouse Routine by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:27 · Score: 0

Was that whole Cat and Mouse routine with authorities for cheap publicity? You came across as just a rich jackass.

what are the chances by phantomfive · 2013-05-02 05:29 · Score: 1

I hate to be this direct to someone who was kind enough to answer the Slashdot questions, but this question is surely what everyone is thinking:

What are the chances the drugs and mushrooms have messed up your mind so much that now you can't distinguish reality from fantasy?

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"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."

Re:what are the chances by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 06:15 · Score: 0

I hate to be this direct to someone who was kind enough to answer the Slashdot questions, but this question is surely what everyone is thinking:
What are the chances the drugs and mushrooms have messed up your mind so much that now you can't distinguish reality from fantasy?
I hate to direct this to someone who is ignorant enough to not see it, but what are the chances of you getting a straight fucking answer if this has already happened long ago...
Re:what are the chances by phantomfive · 2013-05-02 13:31 · Score: 1

Zero, but the answer WOULD be entertaining, and that's what I'm here for.

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"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."

McAfeeFS by WaffleMonster · 2013-05-02 05:31 · Score: 5, Funny

Have you ever considered writing your own filesystem? If so what features would it have?

Re:McAfeeFS by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:35 · Score: 0

Trips Balls, Buries Itself in the Sand, Support for Girlfriends under 18 Years of Age, Expanded Hilarity Index.
Re:McAfeeFS by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 12:42 · Score: 0

He did consider it. While he was running from the cops wearing his speedo and speaking German, I managed to get some serious information from him while hiding in the tall grass. I don't remember the exact words, but along the lines of capable of applying bath salts to files and folders, distributing MDPV across a McAffee RAID system that only works outside of Belize, and capable of faking disk failures like his fake heartattack to evade federal authorities.
Then he ran away yelling in German through the streets. I couldn't say which visually appeared less offensive: his front or rear. Some things just can't be unseen.

the best place in the world? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:35 · Score: 0

What's the best place to live, for a guy like you that wants to get high and fuck underage girls?

Re:the best place in the world? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:47 · Score: 0

Most of Europe.

What about tech? Another startup in Santa Clara? by MrRayliu · 2013-05-02 05:37 · Score: 1

Macafee is such a powerful brand. Just marketing alone should worth millions if not billion. Do you visit the valley? Ray Liu King Star

IF you did it how will you of done it? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:39 · Score: 0

IF you did it how will you of done it?

Would you do an AMA? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:47 · Score: 0

On reddit.

What is your favorite Antivirus? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:50 · Score: 0

Well .. if its McAfee then what is your next favorite anti-virus?

Don't you feel you should stand trial for murder? by aarghj · 2013-05-02 05:52 · Score: 1

After shooting a neighbor with whom you had repeated documented disagreements, don't you think you should stand trial and be judged?

Will you seek treatment? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 05:57 · Score: 0

Do you plan to seek treatment for your Histrionic Personality Disorder?

Quick question. by PrimeNumber · 2013-05-02 06:00 · Score: 0

Are you still ingesting massive amounts of mind altering substances?

Why Portland? by MAXOMENOS · 2013-05-02 06:04 · Score: 1

Why did you decide to camp out in Portland, Oregon for 18 months? What was it about Portland that brought you there?

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Finding God in a Dog

Do you still write code? by sosume · 2013-05-02 06:06 · Score: 2

Do you still write code, perhaps for fun?

McAfee? Phthth, Not Interested by Toad-san · 2013-05-02 06:06 · Score: 1

Back in The Day the name McAfee was significant and even important: the first (maybe, haven't looked it up) and certainly the most effective anti-virus product (and free!) when those sorts of problems first began.

Since then, he's just another rich guy who now has managed to get into serious trouble. Not interested, got problems of my own. Which don't involve being suspected of shooting my neighbor or evading local police, thanka verra much.

Liar.. by RandyKiessig · 2013-05-02 06:14 · Score: 1

Do you think people really buy your bullshit?

Your Opinions by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 06:14 · Score: 0

Why should anyone care what they are?

Can anyone trust you? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 06:19 · Score: 0

You have bragged about installing key loggers and other spyware to snoop on people. Why should anyone buy your product that is designed to prevent such security breaches?

Question for John McAffee by JustNiz · 2013-05-02 06:31 · Score: 4, Interesting

How widespread is it for companies to actually be the creators of the virusses just to create fear/demand for their antivirus products? ( By creating a virus, I mean everything from naming of non-existent virusses right through to actually developing real virusses).

Re:Question for John McAffee by yanyan · 2013-05-02 18:51 · Score: 1

This. Fucking this.

Oh good lord by goodmanj · 2013-05-02 06:36 · Score: 1

Slashdot interviewing MacAfee? Somebody call the U.S. Strategic Paranoia Reserve, we're going to have to tap into it.

Sorry this happened to you by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 06:36 · Score: 0

Wow, there are some mean posts in here.
First, I use McAfee virus protection products at home and at work and they are just fine ( and WAY better than Norton.)
Sorry about your troubles, where do you think it all began to go wrong? Maybe, too much success too fast?

Re:Sorry this happened to you by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 09:52 · Score: 0

Sorry you had to shove all those bath salts up your ass and murder that guy. I lvoe your software, I still use it every time my mom lets me use her IBM PC Compatible computer.

Re:Greatest threat average consumers face today by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 06:38 · Score: 0

Having to unclick the Ask Toolbar and Macafee anti-virus install box on every Java update.

God I hate removing those off of other people's computers. It seems impossible to teach users to unclick those boxes. :(

You really think the answer will not be "NO"? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 06:50 · Score: 0

In what scenario would he answer "yes"?

Captcha: obvious

Re:You really think the answer will not be "NO"? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 08:39 · Score: 0

Please... please stop telling us what captcha you were assigned. No one cares about your life or your experiences. We don't think it's clever, and we're not interested. Just comment, and leave it at that. You don't have to keep doing that. Thanks.
capcha: fuckyou
Re:You really think the answer will not be "NO"? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 09:28 · Score: 0

I still think it's pretty cool.

Asylum by starworks5 · 2013-05-02 06:51 · Score: 1

Do you know of any place I can have asylum in portland for 2-3 weeks? i have some money to pay, but the vacancies around here are low.

Re:Asylum by starworks5 · 2013-05-02 06:51 · Score: 1

i need help very badly, as i have chrons.

That's a ReiserAble Comment by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 06:55 · Score: 0

What you did there. I saw it.

I may be an AC but... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 07:03 · Score: 1

I think I speak for all of us when I say WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK, SLASHDOT?

Just curious by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · 2013-05-02 07:04 · Score: 1

When you're choking a hooker who is high on bath salts, does she get scared?

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what a field-day for the heat by Thud457 · 2013-05-02 07:10 · Score: 1

That Eugene Kaspersky fellow, is he nuts?

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Re:anti-vir tactics by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 07:27 · Score: 0

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/12/oops-did-vice-just-give-away-john-mcafees-location-with-this-photo/

Alex Jones by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 07:30 · Score: 0

Would you care to expand on your wild claim on Alex Jones of all places that Hezbollah is producing ricin by the tons in Belieze?

Are you batshit insane? Or just play like it? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 07:32 · Score: 0

Are you batshit insane? Or just play like it?

Belize Home by IWantMoreSpamPlease · 2013-05-02 07:33 · Score: 1

I've been by your vacation home in Belize. It's still for sale, do the proceeds go to you if/when it sells, or does the gov't get it?

If the gov't gets it, can you lower the pricetag so I can afford it please?

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Location by Dan+East · 2013-05-02 07:35 · Score: 1

What is your current location (at least 5 decimal precision)? Thanks!

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Unnecessary Attention by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 08:19 · Score: 0

Why did you go thru such lengths to disguise yourself to get back into the house, plus constantly blog updates about whatever else you were doing? It seems like you were bringing a lot of unnecessary attention to yourself and making it harder for you to get away from a bad situation. Did you really feel like you were making things better, or are you just so extroverted that you couldn't stop from bringing attention to yourself, or ??

Girlfriends by Ukab+the+Great · 2013-05-02 08:40 · Score: 2

Is having two simultaneous girlfriends as awesome as it sounds?

Hezbollah Ricin Terrorist Attacks by SpaceManFlip · 2013-05-02 08:48 · Score: 1

You claimed in a roundabout fashion that the Mexican Drug Cartels are assisting Hezbollah terrorists to make their way into the USA with a bunch of deadly poison, possibly tons of ricin. If this is true and not another distraction technique, then what are they planning to do with all that nasty shit? Are they planning bio-attacks on US citizens? If they are planning attacks with ricin in the USA, why do you not tell more people and get the word out to save lives?

If anyone out there reading this is in possession of knowledge of any impending poison attacks and does nothing to alert people to stop it, they are in effect assisting the attacks, so you should share any knowledge of such dangers with the public. Lack of information-sharing is a key point of failure in the lead-up to every terrorist attack this century, it seems like. Let's use the Internet to stop the terrorist attacks.

Is this just a Q session? by NeroTransmitter · 2013-05-02 08:57 · Score: 0

Or are we gonna get some &A also?

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How did you manage to stay alive by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 09:16 · Score: 0

with an unlimited supply of drugs? Did you end up destroying large quantities of drugs in order to protect yourself? Or are you drugs just not good enough to lead to that kind of problem?

I don't think its a question of discipline, its a question of your drugs.

Cost by tepples · 2013-05-02 09:37 · Score: 1

why aren't you guys developing whitelists to validate executable code on a workstation

Because it wouldn't scale. How much should it cost for a hobbyist developer of applications that are useful and harmless to gain access to such a workstation?

Re:Cost by ron_ivi · 2013-05-08 06:53 · Score: 1

whitelists

Because it wouldn't scale.
Isn't that basically what the signed apt-get repositories are?
By accepting a signing key, you're signing up for their whitelist.

MAC-a-fee by tepples · 2013-05-02 09:49 · Score: 1

Comcast pronounced it MAC-a-fee in commercials for high-speed Internet service.

why did you pretend Powow Chat was Native American by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 09:50 · Score: 0

was it for fake tax breaks or were you just a fucking nutjob?

McAfee'd by easyTree · 2013-05-02 10:17 · Score: 1

There's a phrase around the office "His machine's being McAfee'd". This cpu-sucking bloatware is forced upon us from on high where the air is too thin to reason well.

Q) Will you please make it stop? :o)

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wired? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 12:34 · Score: 0

Why in the hell did you go with wired as your outlet when you were running?

Re:Can you help score me some LSD? by jrumney · 2013-05-02 12:36 · Score: 1

I think the OP meant "do a line", given the content of the post.

Where do you get your drugs? by TheGoodNamesWereGone · 2013-05-02 12:46 · Score: 1

That's some mighty fine stuff, whatever it is

Coming soon on Slashdot: by TheGoodNamesWereGone · 2013-05-02 12:48 · Score: 1

Hans Reiser's relationship tips!

Why is my browser blocked on Whoismcafee.com? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 13:59 · Score: 0

Why is Cloudflare blocking me for??
"The owner of this website (www.whoismcafee.com) has banned your access based on your browser's signature (ce7e7d11-mh5). (Ref. 1010)
Timestamp: Thu, 02 May 2013 18:34:51 -0700
Your IP address: 206.126.XXX.YYY
Requested URL: www.whoismcafee.com/watchfulness/
Error reference number: 1010
Server ID: FL_11F8
Process ID: PID_6893612117603fa
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0"

Running firefox with a ton of add-ons, is that it? (addblockplus, autopager, baidusearch, collusion, colorzilla, downloadhelper, downloadthemall, duckduckgo plus, facebook disconnect, flashgot, ghostery ,google disconnect, https everwhere, mega extension, noscript, password hasher, override user agent, refcontrol, twitter disconnect).
Or is it that I have too many fonts loaded on my system (>5000)
Or that I am located on a small Caribbean island?
**FUCK CLOUDFLARE**

How many hookers you kill? by gelfling · 2013-05-02 14:33 · Score: 1

More than 5?

Hilarious by ceoyoyo · 2013-05-02 15:16 · Score: 1

It's going to be hilarious to see which "highly moderated" questions the editors pick. I read maybe two or three that wouldn't send McAfee (further) off the deep end.

Status of your *real* biopharmaceutical research? by Aryeh+Goretsky · 2013-05-02 15:50 · Score: 1

Hello Mr. McAfee,

Before you were forced to leave Belize, you were in the process of researching topical antibiotic creams. How far along was that research? Had you found any promising compounds, ready to go to trials, etc., or was still more towards the basic research end of things?

As a follow-up question, if you are able to return to Belize, will you continue this avenue of research?

I know this is kind of a two-part question, but I am hoping you'll still be able to answer.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

P.S. I do not know if you remember me, but I used to work for McAfee Associates back when you first started the company. I used to come to your house and sit at the kitchen table to do tech support over the phone. Later, I went to Colorado to work at your instant messaging company.

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Can we stop listening to this? by speedplane · 2013-05-02 19:49 · Score: 2

What do we have to do to stop listening to stories about you? If we paid you a million would you leave the public alone? A billion? Please!

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What is the best way to remove McAffee by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-02 22:03 · Score: 0

I run a session on public computers and some busybody always loads McAffee. I have not found a way to get rid of it.

The obvious question... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-03 02:55 · Score: 0

Are you personally responsible for the fucking horrible software released under your name?

What's your favorite hat? by jaygatsby27 · 2013-05-03 03:32 · Score: 0

Red Hat, Straw Hat or Tinfoil Hat?

Was that you? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-03 05:53 · Score: 0

A week before everything went down, I was in Belize with friends. Late at night, someone who looked like you walked with us up the beach for 20 minutes telling us how he disliked San Pedro and was thinking of moving to Guatemala. Later, one of the friends told me that was you (after he saw a picture of you). Was that you, and do you remember the conversation?

How is your funding doing? by Yoik · 2013-05-03 15:21 · Score: 1

I'm sure you were fine when this started, but all this action sounds expensive. Can we expect you to be monetizing this great story, or can you afford to be picky about how it is treated?

Widespread Psychopathy vs Creativity? by YaddaMinski · 2013-05-04 02:21 · Score: 1

John, have you speculated on why Psychopathy is so widespread today and why psychos are so controlling of creativity? Creative persons can spot a psycho a mile away so I would think psychos would not confront the creative types. -- Yadda

This is not I folks: It's Jeremiah Cornelius...apk by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-04 06:04 · Score: 0

THIS is why he's doing it & proof of it, here -> http://interviews.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3585927&cid=43295193 when others pointed out Jeremiah Cornelius forgot to submit one of the "first post spams" masquerading as myself as AC, & mistakenly submitted one of the impersonations of myself as his registered 'luser' name here on /. forums.

Pretty pitiful actually, but like every up to no good idiot does? He screwed up & submitted it under his registered 'luser' name here.

* Jeremiah Cornelius: DO YOURSELF, and the rest of us, A GIANT FAVOR MAN: Seek professional psychiatric help!

(Since Jeremiah Cornelius obviously can't get over the fact he made a spelling error on what it is HE ALLEGEDLY DID FOR A LIVING? That's not MY fault... it's HIS!)

APK

P.S.=> I seriously must have dusted JC (in his mind @ least) for his BAD spelling error & it "got his goat"...

I.E.-> Catching what he claimed to do as a job, for YEARS he left "PENETRATION" (correct) spelled as "PENTRATION" (incorrect) on his resume on LinkedIn & I pointed it out as he & his friends trolled me as usual (webmistressrachel, gmhowell, & crew (probably ALL JC no doubt using alterate emails or TOR to do it as a possible - I've caught "them & theirs" doing it before, ala Barbara, not Barbie = TomHudson (same person))).

So THAT is what has gotten his goat in a technical debate & his "geek angst" could only come up with *trying* to "impersonate me" in every news thread on /. for the month of March 2013 so far!

(Just to attempt to 'discredit me' as a spammer here obviously)

Doing so, by posting that "$10,000 challenge" &/or reposts of my old posts on hosts file value to end users into EVERY SINGLE NEWS ARTICLE POSTED on /. ...

It's all I can think of that *might* cause such a mentally troubled 'reaction' like the Jeremiah Cornelius is doing & there's NO QUESTION he's the one doing this spamming of nearly every posted article masquerading as myself...!

... apk

You've been proved wrong. by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-04 06:08 · Score: 0

Add our key to see dancing bunnies by tepples · 2013-05-08 09:00 · Score: 1

By accepting a signing key, you're signing up for their whitelist.

Which brings back the dancing bunnies problem. The user sees "Add our PPA to see dancing bunnies", the user gets the home PC's administrator to do so, and the system is compromised. Or the user is a software developer, but he's tired of having to retype his code signing key's passphrase every single time he rebuilds his project, so he takes the passphrase off the key. Now any malware can sign itself as the user.

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