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John McAfee
Personal blog · whoismcafee.comsecurityculture
John McAfee's personal blog at whoismcafee.com covers security and culture. Since 2012, 41 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “McAfee’s Third World Travel Guide”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- McAfee’s Third World Travel Guide9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2012-11-24
- John Mcafee Safe6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2012-12-03
- John McAfee confirms he is in Guatemala4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-12-04
- McAfee safe, EXIF data puts him in Guatemala, but he faked it3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-12-03
- The McAfee Central America Travel Guide (2023)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-03-07
- The official Blog of John McAfee2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-11-19
- John McAfee: Social engineering Belize government officials2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-03
What Hacker News says?
John MacAfee has a great guide. Context is important. You need to know the situation, you have to be situationally aware. You can't just start showing money (maybe alcohol or other "currency" depending on their penchants are more apt). You have to know a bit about the locals. See http://www.whoismcafee.com/the-travel-guide/
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on “I got arrested in Kazakhstan and represented myself in court”Submitted McAfee’s Third World Travel Guide as a story · 181 points
HN discussionThis thread reminds me of John McAfee's bribery guide http://www.whoismcafee.com/the-travel-guide/
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on “Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case”Submitted “We will sell you this microwave under the following conditions” as a story · 166 points
HN discussionIn order to make the most of your travels, you need to first understand that, throughout much of the Third World, there is a smoothly functioning “system” in place that has evolved over centuries. From the First World perspective it is a “corrupt” system, and indeed, at the higher levels there is no other word for it, and this blog’s purpose is to remove the brutality and horror of such high level corruption. At the…
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on “Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away”Submitted The official Blog of John McAfee as a story · 148 points
HN discussionThanks for your story. McAfee has written an extensive guide on how it works in central America: https://www.whoismcafee.com/the-travel-guide/
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on “Zero rupee note (2015)”Submitted John Mcafee Safe as a story · 24 points
HN discussionhere's one http://www.whoismcafee.com/the-travel-guide/
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on “What to do if you’re stopped by the police”Submitted John McAfee arrested in Belize as a story · 17 points
HN discussionMcAfee, the marketing nightmare that just keeps on giving. I genuinely don't understand why McAfee the company hasn't changed its name yet. In the meantime, some greatest hits: How to Uninstall McAfee (NSFW-ish) https://youtu.be/bKgf5PaBzyg The McAfee guide to bribery in the third world http://www.whoismcafee.com/the-travel-guide/
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on “McAfee Arrested in Spain, DOJ Indictment for Tax Evasion Using Cryptocurrencies”Submitted John McAfee is Now Blogging From Jail as a story · 13 points
HN discussionHe really seems like character pulled straight from Far Cry game.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiN3rq6kqKI http://www.whoismcafee.com/the-travel-guide/
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on “The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000)”Submitted John McAfee confirms he is in Guatemala as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThe only way I can rationalize your post is by assuming that 1) you've never done any type of drugs, especially stimulants, and 2) you've yet to form an understanding of how the media likes to sensationalize stories to the point of making them up. If you look at any of McAfee's current writings, posts, or comments, or his behavior on camera, or his health/appearance (that is, for a 70 year old man!), you'd see a man…
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on “John McAfee arrested in Guatemala”Submitted John McAfee: Social engineering Belize government officials as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThe original source there isn't Gizmodo; it's McAfee's own posts on the Bluelight drug forum. He has admitted these are his posts, though he now says it was a hoax: http://www.whoismcafee.com/stuffmonger-and-bluelight/
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on “John McAfee arrested in Guatemala”Submitted John captured? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYeah I don't think thhe VICE screw up was planned...according to McAfee himself http://www.whoismcafee.com/guatemala/ Vice Magazine reporters are indeed with me in Guatemala. Yesterday was chaotic due to the accidental release of my exact co-ordinates by an unseasoned technician at Vice headquarters. We made it to safety in spite of this handicap. I had to cancel numerous interviews with the press yesterday because…
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on “John McAfee arrested in Guatemala”Submitted McAfee Central America Travel Guide as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis means the VICE metadata of the image the published was correct, and his "I edited the EXIF data" story was a lie: he was in Guatemala (specifically, along the Rio Dulce in Parque Nacional Rio Dulce). Also, just yesterday he posted saying that he would be meeting with Guatemalan officials this morning: http://www.whoismcafee.com/guatemala/
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on “John McAfee arrested in Guatemala”Submitted The McAfee Central America Travel Guide (2023) as a story · 4 points
HN discussion"Desperate" about sums it up. Here's the latest bit, in which he retracts the other bit: http://www.whoismcafee.com/guatemala/
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on “Vice.com Reveals John McAfee's Location In iPhone Metadata”Submitted John McAfee: Belizean government has formed alliance with Hezbollah and Zetas as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> Only a severely paranoid person would take the time to write a year's worth of blog entries on the off chance he became a fugitive. Even then, what advantage does it give him? Some misdirection, certainly, but simply disappearing would be just as effective. McAffee stated this in one of his earlier blog posts [1]. The blog is administered by a third party, and although a lot of the content is written by McAffee, m…
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on “Vice.com Reveals John McAfee's Location In iPhone Metadata”Submitted The McAfee Central America Travel Guide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis whole thing is hilarious: http://www.whoismcafee.com/another-apology/ Also, why does he have like 40 ways to share an article? I'd never even heard of half of these social networks.
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on “Vice.com Reveals John McAfee's Location In iPhone Metadata”Submitted The McAfee Central America Travel Guide (2012) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSounds like John may have been a step ahead. (He claims to have editted the EXIF data in an apology to VICE mag.) http://www.whoismcafee.com/another-apology/
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on “Vice.com Reveals John McAfee's Location In iPhone Metadata”Submitted #everykey is is a f•••ing game changer as a story · 2 points
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