John Mcafee Safe

rwmj 13 years ago |

Safe? He's a murder suspect who's gone on the run. I'm wondering who is "safe" here.

ry0ohki 13 years ago | |

According to the Belize authorities he's not a suspect

rwmj 13 years ago | | |

He is a "person of interest". It's not clear how that's different from a suspect, but the Belize authorities sure want to interview him.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20315415

lutusp 13 years ago | | |

> He is a "person of interest". It's not clear how that's different from a suspect ...

A witness to a crime could be a person of interest. A victim of a crime could be a person of interest. An investigator of a crime could be a person of interest. If the police wanted to say he was a suspect, there's a readily available word for that -- suspect.

antihero 13 years ago | | |

But victim or perpetrator, if your number is up, we’ll find you.

aes256 13 years ago |

Just when I thought things couldn't get more bizarre, Vice magazine get involved...

fwr 13 years ago |

I like that Vice is going to be covering this, they are the perfect outlet for this story.

bishop_mandible 13 years ago |

Glad to see him safe.

stephengillie 13 years ago | |

I agree, it's good to hear another human wasn't killed. Death is sad.

Though I'd rather not see his exploits on HN. I feel like I'm stuck reading this man's life-as-opera. "He's a criminal" "He's a smuggler" "He's an antivirus genius" "He's dead" "He's feeling better". What's next with this romance? Will we start hearing "He paints" "He owns llamas"?

So much of this man's activities in life aren't relevant to my own. Drama doesn't belong on HN's front page.

shdon 13 years ago | | |

"Though I'd rather not see his exploits on HN." <--- this

I have no idea whether he really is, but all I read about this situation makes McAfee seem more and more like a crackpot. I can't say I've cared about his company's products for a long time and the man doing a Richard Kimble while nothing has been proven either way is just meh.

illuminate 13 years ago | | |

Kimble is dislikeable, but not without some charms (mostly in how he charms others), his rap-video obsessions are different from McAfee in that Kimble is interested in how others perceive him versus McAfee who is living the starker real-life version of the glamour.

URSpider94 13 years ago | | |

Heh -- the parent was referring to Richard Kimble, protagonist of "The Fugitive" (I'll wait while you Google it), not Kim Dotcom. While there are some commonalities, R. Kimble was an upstanding medical doctor who, I'm pretty sure, never rapped ...

illuminate 13 years ago | | |

Hah! I'm so used to seeing Dotcom mentioned that I entirely forgot about The Fugitive. My mistake.

easytiger 13 years ago | | |

I thought the rumour was he only had a few million left in assets (could be wrong). He hasn't been affiliated with McAfee since the mid 1990s

monochromatic 13 years ago | | |

Seriously. This shit turns HN into a tabloid.

luma 13 years ago | |

The man is quite likely guilty of murder. I know we all like rooting for the underdog, but this might not be the right underdog.

bishop_mandible 13 years ago | | |

This man is a victim of corrupt authorities.

Breakthrough 13 years ago | | |

All I see in both of the two parent comments is:

[INSERT BASELESS SPECULATIVE CLAIMS HERE FOLLOWED BY LACK OF ANY REFERENCES WHATSOEVER]

luma 13 years ago | | |

Really? I mean, that's what he says to us. With the media attention on him and this case, I would think he'd be protected from the worst of what he claims would be police abuse.

Unless, you know, he's guilty as hell. You're basing your knowledge of this incident upon his own version of events.