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SHOCK, John McAfee:: infected laptops with malware, spied and stole passwords

Twenty years ago, John McAfee ran an anti-virus company. He's not had anything to do with the company that bears his name (and was subsequently acquired by Intel) since the early 1990s, but that doesn't mean that his involvement with malware has come to an end. Many people have been following the bizarre story of John McAfee, who has been on the run from the Belize police since mid-November, had his location leaked to the world in a photo's EXIF meta-data, and was hastily deported from his Guatemala hide-out to the United States. Throughout his escapades, John McAfee has been keeping the internet entertained and informed of his swashbuckling exploits via his blog. Most recently, John McAfee claims that he gave Belize officials cheap laptops that had been deliberately pre-infected with keylogging spyware. I purchased 75 cheap laptop computers and, with trusted help, installed invisible keystroke logging software on all of them - the keind that calls home (to me) and d...