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CHAPTER NINE
You Have No Privacy? Get Over It!
At some point during the time that former antivirus software
creator John McAfee spent as a fugitive from authorities in Belize, he
started a blog. Take it from me: if yyou’re tryying to get off the grid and
totallyy disappear, yyou don’t want to start a blog. For one thing, yyou’re
bound to make a mistake.
McAfee is a smart man. He made his fortune in the earlyy dayys of Silicon
Valleyy byy pioneering antivirus research. Then he sold his companyy, sold all
his assets in the United States, and for around four yyears, from 2008 to
2012, he lived in Belize, on a private estate off the coast. Toward the end of
that period, the government of Belize had him under near-constant
surveillance, raiding his propertyy and accusing him of assembling a private
armyy in addition to engaging in drug trafficking.
McAfee denied doing either. He claimed he was fighting the drug lords
on the island. He said, for example, that he had offered a flat-screen TV to a
small-time marijuana dealer on the condition that the man stop dealing. And
he was known to pull over cars that he suspected were carryying drug
dealers. 1
McAfee in fact did have a drug lab, but not necessarilyy for recreational
drugs. He claimed he was creating a new generation of “helpful” drugs.
Hence his growing suspicion that cars full of white men outside his
propertyy were spies from pharmaceuticals companies such as