[RummyChick]

where is Michael Westin when you need him.

Here is the Wired story.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/threatlevel_1112_mcafee/

[nuconvert]

From the one pic of him that I saw, he looks very tightly strung

[donozark]

This guy is starting to remind me of Johnny DuPont. A high tech version.

[Morris70]

Maybe he thought the other guy was malware.
Couldn’t he quarantine him then do research.

[brownsfan]

His crappy software has killed countless PCs.

[oh8eleven]

He said he was innocent and that he hid under the sand while the police searched his property.
Ahh, sounds like the old hiding under the sand trick.

[Red Badger]

Maybe he had a virus................

[Uncle Chip]

While many neighbours complained about the dogs, which barked whenever people walk past on the beach, McAfee does not believe any of them could be behind the poisoning, blaming the local authorities instead. In an email he wrote to Wired on Friday night, McAfee noted some men had arrived on the island in the night and shortly after the dogs had been poisoned.

Is he saying that some men poisoned his dogs to silence them so that they wouldn't bark when they went to kill his neighbor???

[Hardraade]

Probably someone who bought his antivirus.

[unlearner]

The locals are up in arms because this very wealthy American uses his wealth to sexually exploit underage girls. But he has a bigger problem.

Because of his wealth, he has been the target of many violent criminals. His solution has been to hire them as security consultants - convincing them they will be wealthier and safer by taking his offer. That is after all, following the legacy of his software empire, the hacker’s approach. What could possibly go wrong?

Unless what I have been reading about him is merely a smear campaign by his enemies, he seems to be descending into madness.

[Arthur McGowan]

McAfee clogged up, and nearly destroyed, this computer. And the only way I got any attention from the company was to start e-mailing, dozens of times, every address I could find.

[Deek]

I have met John a handful of times, both when he lived in the US and after he moved to Belize. He is an interesting character.

I am also fairly certain that he is a psychopath (in the clinical sense). He takes pride in his lack of feelings for others. When his nephew was killed in Rodeo, MN flying one of John's airplanes, John was almost militant in his unwillingness to mourn him. He wraps this behavior in a cloak of "Zen", and for years he pursued Yoga/meditation/Zen training. John is anything but Zen though.

He professes to be opposed to drugs or alcohol in any form. He will go so far as to prohibit the people around him to drink; therefore it surprises me that he is being accused of drug use. When he moved to Belize, he setup a lab in his compound to study the "natural chemical properties of plants". After his researcher quit, John continued to operate the lab, and this raised many questions with the authorities as to what was going on. It did seem odd.

Regarding the dogs, they were a menace at the compound; and I am a dog lover. When you entered John's compound, you were issued a "buggy whip" to fend off the dogs. They were aggressive, a pack of junkyard dogs. I was bitten on one visit, and no telling how many others were. I would not want those animals anywhere near my kids.

[Deek]

I have met John a handful of times, both when he lived in the US and after he moved to Belize. He is an interesting character.

I am also fairly certain that he is a psychopath (in the clinical sense). He takes pride in his lack of feelings for others. When his nephew was killed in Rodeo, MN flying one of John's airplanes, John was almost militant in his unwillingness to mourn him. He wraps this behavior in a cloak of "Zen", and for years he pursued Yoga/meditation/Zen training. John is anything but Zen though.

He professes to be opposed to drugs or alcohol in any form. He will go so far as to prohibit the people around him to drink; therefore it surprises me that he is being accused of drug use. When he moved to Belize, he setup a lab in his compound to study the "natural chemical properties of plants". After his researcher quit, John continued to operate the lab, and this raised many questions with the authorities as to what was going on. It did seem odd.

Regarding the dogs, they were a menace at the compound; and I am a dog lover. When you entered John's compound, you were issued a "buggy whip" to fend off the dogs. They were aggressive, a pack of junkyard dogs. I was bitten on one visit, and no telling how many others were. I would not want those animals anywhere near my kids.

[onedoug]

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