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Why would they post his location though...that's messed up. If he gets held by the authorities and executed, that blood is on the original poster's hands.

alexanderh 14y ago
This is vice we're talking about. That would be welcome publicity to them. I'm just glad (yea, i'm rooting for McAfee) McAfee seems to be aware of the situation. Whether or not he's bluffing about the exif data being edited, at least he knows this is out there.
- marcamillion 14y ago
  Well Vice didn't post his location. They posted the photo. It's the mobile privacy guys that looked for the EXIF data and posted that.
  - alexanderh 14y ago
    True, still, careless on Vice's behalf none the less. You'd think Vice would have some interest in protecting sources, I can remember them trying to pass for 'journalism' at least a few times. Why doesnt Vice's website CMS strip exif data from public facing images? Seems stupid. Sites like Imgur.com get this right.
    - jonny_eh 14y ago
      And yet people complain that imgur strips exif data.
      - pyre 14y ago
        Striping all exif data is maybe a little extreme, but striping most might not be that bad (i.e. create a white list of tags, things like rotation, etc). That said, in a case like this, it would make more sense to strip it all (maybe replace it with a copyright notice or something).
    - jarin 14y ago
      Most likely whoever posted it just didn't know about it.
- chiquitabacana 14y ago
  Exactly. Vice. People. Fuck. Have you ever read vice before? Bunch of cold, fucking exploitative hipsters. (Truth zone)
Steko 14y ago
"If he gets held by the authorities and executed," I think 'then it's his own fault for moving to a banana republic tax haven' is the punchline to that joke.
- marcamillion 14y ago
  I don't find it funny. So what if he moved to a 'banana republic tax haven', aka home to millions of people, that means he should be turned over to crooked officials and executed? Come on man...I know this is the internet, but this is someone's life we are talking about. Not to mention he is a revered entrepreneur. Even if you don't like him, he built a software company from the ground-up and sold it to Intel. I would think that given where you are (HN) and who he is, there would be more compassion. He is like one of our own.
  - Steko 14y ago
    "that means he should be turned over to crooked officials and executed?" That's a straw man; no, he shouldn't be unjustly executed. My point is that's a risk you take by living in Belize. Or Somalia, another Libertarian Paradise. If you're so scared of routine police questioning in the murder of your neighbor that you have to go on a McAfee-style trip to Bizarro world; sleeping in ditches and drinking your own urine[1] maybe the alternative of paying taxes isn't the great satan millionaires make it out to be. Or maybe he killed the guy. "Not to mention he is a revered entrepreneur." Who made his millions on the back of a society built in no small part on public investments which he is attempting to dodge. Don't let the Death Squad hit you on the way out. [1] I'm making this up but it matches my general impression of the McAfee fugitive drama.
  - tptacek 14y ago
    John McAfee did not sell MCAF (previously NETA, previously McAfee Associates) to Intel. He was long gone by the time I got there in 1998. The company uses his name as marketing, but he hasn't influenced it since before Windows 98.
andrewfelix 14y ago
"held by the authorities and executed, that blood is on the original poster's hands." This is hyperbole. There's nothing to suggest that he would not receive a fair trial other than the paranoid ramblings from McAfee himself. He quite possibly killed his neighbour. Why shouldn't the authorities get hold of this guy?
- 4ad 14y ago
  Do you genuinely believe that anybody would receive a fair trial in Belize? I'm coming from a country significantly closer to the developed world than Belize, and yet people generally don't have fair trials here. I can't imagine how much worse it is in Belize.
kryptiskt 14y ago
I have to think that the guy who bears all the responsibility for whatever happens is the attention-seeking fugitive who invites media to tag along. Don't like that information leaks? Well, then don't do that then!

alexanderh 14y ago

This is vice we're talking about. That would be welcome publicity to them. I'm just glad (yea, i'm rooting for McAfee) McAfee seems to be aware of the situation. Whether or not he's bluffing about the exif data being edited, at least he knows this is out there.

marcamillion 14y ago
Well Vice didn't post his location. They posted the photo. It's the mobile privacy guys that looked for the EXIF data and posted that.
- alexanderh 14y ago
  True, still, careless on Vice's behalf none the less. You'd think Vice would have some interest in protecting sources, I can remember them trying to pass for 'journalism' at least a few times. Why doesnt Vice's website CMS strip exif data from public facing images? Seems stupid. Sites like Imgur.com get this right.
  - jonny_eh 14y ago
    And yet people complain that imgur strips exif data.
    - pyre 14y ago
      Striping all exif data is maybe a little extreme, but striping most might not be that bad (i.e. create a white list of tags, things like rotation, etc). That said, in a case like this, it would make more sense to strip it all (maybe replace it with a copyright notice or something).
  - jarin 14y ago
    Most likely whoever posted it just didn't know about it.
chiquitabacana 14y ago
Exactly. Vice. People. Fuck. Have you ever read vice before? Bunch of cold, fucking exploitative hipsters. (Truth zone)

Steko 14y ago

"If he gets held by the authorities and executed," I think 'then it's his own fault for moving to a banana republic tax haven' is the punchline to that joke.

marcamillion 14y ago
I don't find it funny. So what if he moved to a 'banana republic tax haven', aka home to millions of people, that means he should be turned over to crooked officials and executed? Come on man...I know this is the internet, but this is someone's life we are talking about. Not to mention he is a revered entrepreneur. Even if you don't like him, he built a software company from the ground-up and sold it to Intel. I would think that given where you are (HN) and who he is, there would be more compassion. He is like one of our own.
- Steko 14y ago
  "that means he should be turned over to crooked officials and executed?" That's a straw man; no, he shouldn't be unjustly executed. My point is that's a risk you take by living in Belize. Or Somalia, another Libertarian Paradise. If you're so scared of routine police questioning in the murder of your neighbor that you have to go on a McAfee-style trip to Bizarro world; sleeping in ditches and drinking your own urine[1] maybe the alternative of paying taxes isn't the great satan millionaires make it out to be. Or maybe he killed the guy. "Not to mention he is a revered entrepreneur." Who made his millions on the back of a society built in no small part on public investments which he is attempting to dodge. Don't let the Death Squad hit you on the way out. [1] I'm making this up but it matches my general impression of the McAfee fugitive drama.
- tptacek 14y ago
  John McAfee did not sell MCAF (previously NETA, previously McAfee Associates) to Intel. He was long gone by the time I got there in 1998. The company uses his name as marketing, but he hasn't influenced it since before Windows 98.

andrewfelix 14y ago

"held by the authorities and executed, that blood is on the original poster's hands." This is hyperbole. There's nothing to suggest that he would not receive a fair trial other than the paranoid ramblings from McAfee himself. He quite possibly killed his neighbour. Why shouldn't the authorities get hold of this guy?

4ad 14y ago
Do you genuinely believe that anybody would receive a fair trial in Belize? I'm coming from a country significantly closer to the developed world than Belize, and yet people generally don't have fair trials here. I can't imagine how much worse it is in Belize.

kryptiskt 14y ago

I have to think that the guy who bears all the responsibility for whatever happens is the attention-seeking fugitive who invites media to tag along. Don't like that information leaks? Well, then don't do that then!