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John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

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Post by julianeon »

colordrops wrote: post #140
nullsmack wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And then he killed himself to set off moronic conspiracy theories as a final FU to the USA.

Which is more believable, that he was murdered, or that he killed himself to troll people?

He didn't kill himself to troll people, really.

He killed himself to damage the reputation of the US government.

He couldn't escape from imprisonment, and he couldn't do much to harm the government. But he could do this.

It was the most he could do, so (I think) it's what he did.

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Post by prvc »

gkoberger wrote: post #25
mc32 wrote: post #3

Good or bad, what a sad ending to a colorful life. The guy was troubled and had many shortcomings, but he was colorful and also achieved success and arguably was one of the seminal figures in the nascent AV industry. Sad to see his fall from grace and into a world of extravagance, deceit and cheating (taxes) and, if allegations true, even worse; then to end it on the floor of a jail -all by his own hands.

I mean, he very likely killed his neighbor in 2012... so I feel like "colorful" undermines how much of a monster he's been for over a decade.

You're saying "likely" as a hedge, when in fact you are instead merely expressing an opinion, without any knowledge of the actual numerical likelihood of such an event having happened.

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Post by Scoundreller »

quenix wrote: post #206
Scoundreller wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your sketchy looking link which I mistakenly clicked on instead of copy and pasting into my VM is b0rk. Says "This item has exceeded its view limit!"

You run a VM just to inspect "sketchy-looking links"? That sounds like paranoid behavior, if I'm being honest.

If anything, not paranoid enough because still tracking.

This place would be one of the best to hit with a 0day. Lots of IT people with full admin rights to entire corporate networks.

Re: John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

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Post by babypuncher »

colordrops wrote: post #158
gkoberger wrote: post #32

I feel like a lot of people in this thread are forgetting he likely killed his neighbor in 2012 and has been on the run since. I mean, sure he built some antivirus software a few decades ago, but I don't think he deserves the eulogies he's getting here. He's not tech's Hunter S. Thompson; he's a murderer who spent the last years of his life screwing over people with crypto scams.

Was he convincted of murder, or are you acting as the judge and jury based on third hand media reports?

People aren't automatically innocent in the eyes of the public just because they successfully avoid seeing a trial for nearly a decade by fleeing the country they are wanted in. McAfee's behavior surrounding the charges does absolutely nothing to help his perception.

"Innocent until proven guilty" is really only applicable in the context of formal judicial punishment. Absent formal judicial proceedings, it is completely fair for people to draw their own conclusions from the available evidence.

Even when a court of law does come to a conclusion, it does not mean public opinion is required to agree with that finding (i.e. that time OJ Simpson killed a person)

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Post by Miner49er »

spacechild1 wrote: post #212
bennyp101 wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok. hand wavey Tasered is not torture, else surely cops wouldn't use it? And he poisoned 4 dogs, people get rather angry about their pets. But yea, killing over it is extreme. Still, seems an odd thing to extradite him for. Maybe more to the story which we will never know.

> Tasered is not torture, else surely cops wouldn't use it? You know, a cop would taser you once for a few seconds. That poor guy got tasered repeatedly, including his genitalia. How is this not torture?

> You know, a cop would taser you once for a few seconds.

Most of the time. Cops are known to torture people with tasers in the US by using them for long periods of time or repeatedly.

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Post by hnra »

Barrin92 wrote: post #141
jfrunyon wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you miss the "Tesla buys billions of USD in bitcoin" headlines? Along with the "will accept payment in BTC" pump and "never mind, selling" dump?

did they actually dump their bitcoin? If yes I'd agree that it deserves attention but I don't think that's the case. Probably for that reason Elon actually posted in May or whatever that they have not sold their coins. Unless you can show that he actually mislead users for financial gain I don't think you're going to get authorities involved.

Tesla sold bitcoin before their last quarterly report. They were about to underperform but thankfully their BTC announcement made sure they could dump and then beat earnings instead.

Weirdly, they announced they would no longer accept BTC (on grounds known for years) right after they dumped.

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Post by sschueller »

jfrunyon wrote: post #121
pdimitar wrote: post #52

Never followed his story but the translated article on NyPost only mentions his cryptocurrency pump and dump scheme. Which naturally leads me to the question, why was McAffee pursued for this all the way to Europe but Elon Musk isn't even investigated while millions watched him do the same? I am not loading this politically at all. I am not from the US and I am mostly apathetic to celebrities. But I am genuinely curi…

Because (according to the allegations) McAfee didn't pay the tax man.

Neither do Musk, Bezos, Soros etc. They just manage to get away with it. I guess McAfee was just not rich enough and didn't have the right tax attorney.

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Post by njoubert »

api wrote: post #225

He clearly lost his mind at some point. Late John McAfee != early John McAfee. Heavy drug abuse and alcoholism looks to have played a role. Giving tons of money to a chronic addict (like he got when he cashed out of his company) can be a death sentence.

Do you have any experience with the stuff you’re making such bold statements about, because I have; and my god did you oversimplify things.
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