Interview: Ask John McAfee What You Will 194
John McAfee was best known as a software designer and founder of the computer anti-virus company McAfee Associates until his saga in Belize began. McAfee's works on producing natural antibiotics commercially in Belize was quickly overshadowed by police raids, murder allegations, and a month of evading Belizean authorities while maintaining his innocence. He was eventually captured and deported back to the United States in December 2012 without being charged with any crime. "Boston George" Jung (a man who has lived quite an unusual life himself) has been tapped to write McAfee's biography titled, No Domain. Now that things have mostly settled down, John has agreed to answer your questions. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one per post.
why run (Score:5, Interesting)
What Happened with Vice.com? (Score:5, Interesting)
McAfee Antivirus (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?
What would you do differently? (Score:5, Interesting)
Natural Antibotics (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 (Score:5, Interesting)
What was the problem? (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?
Did you kill the guy? (Score:4, Interesting)
Did you?
Comment removed (Score:5, Interesting)
Why George Jung? (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?
Did you learn your lesson? (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?
On Hezbollah, Zetas and MDPV (Score:4, Interesting)
As a microbiologist... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:McAfee Antivirus (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:why run (Score:5, 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?
Question for John McAffee (Score:5, 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:Sex with under aiged girls (Score:2, Interesting)
Is a pedofile a tool for scraping the callouses off one's feet?
Re: why run (Score:4, Interesting)