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Antivirus software pioneer John McAfee dies by suicide in prison: report
NYPost ^
| 06 23 2021
| Ben Feuerherd
Posted on 06/23/2021 12:45:04 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Antivirus software tycoon John McAfee died by an apparent suicide in a Spanish jail cell Wednesday evening — hours after reports surfaced that he would be extradited to face federal charges in the US, according to local media.
The eccentric tech entrepreneur was arrested in October and was awaiting extradition when he was found dead, police sources told the newspaper El Pais.
The newspaper reported McAfee was pulled from his cell in Barcelona and police are investigating the circumstances around his death.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Spanish High Court had agreed to extradite McAfee, who has been charged with a number of federal financial crimes in two districts in the United States.
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To: yesthatjallen
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posted on
06/23/2021 12:54:34 PM PDT
by
Shadow44
To: yesthatjallen
He is preceded in death by millions of pc’s that ran McAfee software.
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posted on
06/23/2021 12:55:44 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Reno89519
To: yesthatjallen
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posted on
06/23/2021 12:56:14 PM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
To: yesthatjallen
He had CIA written all over him.
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posted on
06/23/2021 12:57:33 PM PDT
by
JonPreston
(Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
To: larrytown
Was he on the spectrum? (Aspbergers?)
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posted on
06/23/2021 12:59:14 PM PDT
by
jacquej
("You cannot have a conservative government with a liberal culture." (Mark Steyn))
To: yesthatjallen
sounds excessive reaction to a white collar case... worse case he would go to club fed.
To: Jewbacca
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posted on
06/23/2021 1:01:16 PM PDT
by
Radix
(Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents.)
To: yesthatjallen
Hope there is an in the event of my death statement to be released.
To: JonPreston
The only way we will know for sure he is dead is if he no longer peddles scams on the Internet.
;-)
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posted on
06/23/2021 1:02:18 PM PDT
by
cgbg
(A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
To: Celerity
>>This guy is resourceful and would totally fake his death.
Not without precedent... he claimed to have faked the heart attacks while in a Guatemalan prison to buy time for his attorney to file a series of appeals.
The man was unconventional...
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posted on
06/23/2021 1:06:50 PM PDT
by
vikingd00d
(chown -R us ~you/base)
To: yesthatjallen
Started off as a scam artist (viruses were not really an issue when he started, computers rarely talked to each other). Turned into a loon. Then a crook. Now he’s gone.
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posted on
06/23/2021 1:08:57 PM PDT
by
discostu
(Like a dog being shown a card trick )
To: DannyTN
You know Intel bought the product and his name don’t you?
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posted on
06/23/2021 1:14:29 PM PDT
by
ImJustAnotherOkie
(All I know is The I read in the papers.)
To: discostu
Anti-virus was not heard of. He developed utilities for disks, caching, formatting et al.
Virus stuff came later.
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posted on
06/23/2021 1:17:01 PM PDT
by
ImJustAnotherOkie
(All I know is The I read in the papers.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Yeah, Intel sold it in 2017.
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posted on
06/23/2021 1:17:05 PM PDT
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DannyTN
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Anti-virus was not necessary. And that’s what he built his empire on. Norton did all that other stuff and more drastically better. He built his fortune on a lie.
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posted on
06/23/2021 1:20:36 PM PDT
by
discostu
(Like a dog being shown a card trick )
"Getting subtle messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect: "We're coming for you McAfee! We're going to kill yourself". I got a tattoo today just in case. If I suicide myself, I didn't. I was whackd. Check my right arm." (Nov 30, 2019)
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To: yesthatjallen
To: yesthatjallen
A sad case, but he found a corrupt third world country, in which the officials would not stay bought.
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posted on
06/23/2021 1:25:48 PM PDT
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marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
To: yesthatjallen
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posted on
06/23/2021 1:45:46 PM PDT
by
Justa
(If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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