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John McAfee is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur born in 1945. He was one of the first people to design anti-virus software and to develop a virus scanner, creating McAfee Associates. He now has no relationship with the company, which was sold to Intel Corp. In 2010 he moved to Belize to start a biotech company, but left the country when accused of murdering his neighbor. He currently resides in the U.S.

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5 Jun, 2014

Radio Ink keynote

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McAfee delivers the keynote speech at Radio Ink’s Convergence conference. He says that Google is trying matchmaking services:

I don’t want the perfect  mate. I don’t want Google to search 5 billion women to find the perfect one. I would shoot myself in six months.

He says privacy is difficult due to the access to personal data that companies like Google and organizations like the NSA have:

Privacy is a choice. If everybody here knew everything about everybody else, there would be fistfights in the hall. The only way we can live together as a society is if we deceive each other. Tragic, but true […] If you have something to hide in this world, you’re screwed

3 Jun, 2014

ESC filming starts

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SUKI Films announces principal photography has started on ESC in Sudbury, Ontario. The film is due for release in theaters and over other platforms in summer 2015. It is directed by Alain DesRochers and stars Molly Parker (House of Cards, The Firm), Nick Krause (The Descendants, Parenthood) and Juliette Gosselin (Les Jeunes Loups, Martyrs). McAfee provides off-screen narration as the computer voice.

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/474977532711043072

28 Aug, 2013

How To Be An Eccentric Millionaire

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McAfee releases a follow-up parody video addressing recent events in his life:

In my last video I didn’t have much time to tell you much about myself. The four most popular questions are 1) Did I murder my neighbor in Belize? 2) Was I manufacturing illegal drugs in Central America 3) was I having sex with underage girls, and was I using bath salts. I can answer a resounding no to all three of those questions. Was I really living with seven women in Belize? Well that’s a tricky one. There were, in fact, days when all seven were present.

20 Jun, 2013

How To Uninstall McAfee

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McAfee appears in a parody film, How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus.

Although I’ve had nothing to do with this company for over 15 years, I still get volumes of mail asking, ‘How do I uninstall this software?’ I have no idea.

How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus