Today, June 24, news spread around the world that the creator of the McAfee antivirus, John McAfee, committed suicide in a Spanish prison. Rambler decided to remember how the life of the legendary IT-tycoon developed.
John McAfee, Ph.D., is an American programmer who developed the world's first anti-virus program McAfee. His capital reached $ 100 million. In addition to McAfee, he founded Tribal Voice, which developed PowWow, one of the first instant messaging programs. There are many other projects behind him, the latest project of McAfee was observational yoga. The scientist surrounded himself with an army of followers willing to pay $ 200 an hour while watching others practice yoga. He also tried to get the US presidency from the libertarian party.
For some, McAfee was a genius, but for someone a scandalous person. In 2012, his villa was searched. A GSU press release said McAfee was involved in the sale of unlicensed drugs and was in possession of unlicensed weapons. All charges were later dropped.
In the same year, Belize police began searching for McAfee in connection with the murder of Gregory Fall, who was found shot to death. The fact is that Fall has repeatedly written statements to the police about the fact that McAfee often fired from his gun. In an interview with Wired magazine, McAfee insisted on his innocence. He fled Belize to Guatemala, changed his appearance (dyed his hair and beard, and reshaped his upper jaw with chewing gum) to investigate Fall of his own. The Guatemalan authorities refused to grant McAfee political asylum and expressed their intention to extradite him to Belize. All charges were later dropped.
The next time he was detained on October 3, 2020 at the Barcelona airport, when he was about to fly to Istanbul, after which he was sent under arrest. The businessman was detained at the request of the US Department of Justice, which accused him of tax evasion. According to Tennessee state attorneys, McAfee has not paid taxes on the $ 23 million income earned from promoting cryptocurrencies, lecturing and selling the rights to his life story for the documentary. He faced up to 30 years in prison.
Also in New York, he was accused of fraud with cryptocurrencies and money laundering, for which, as Business Insider wrote, the businessman was threatened with life imprisonment. McAfee denied all charges.
And on June 24, 2021, John McAfee committed suicide after falling into despair after spending nine months in prison. He did it to himself a few hours later, when the Spanish National Court of Justice decided to extradite the businessman to the United States, where he faced a long prison sentence.
“This is the result of a brutal system that had no reason to keep him in jail for so long,”
Many people saw McAfee as a madman, but still the vast majority considered and continue to consider him a cybersecurity legend and just a genius. John's word was so authoritative that as soon as he uttered it on Facebook or Twitter, there is an interesting new token – like a coin skyrocketed.
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