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GlaxoSmithKline. He further claimed that the raids byy the local police were
instigated byy these same pharmaceuticals companies.
Guarding his propertyy were several men with guns and eleven dogs. A
neighbor two houses to the south, Greg Faull, complained regularlyy to the
authorities about the dogs barking late at night. Then one night in
November of 2012, some of McAfee’s dogs were poisoned. And later that
same week, Faull was shot, found facedown in a pool of blood in his house.
The Belize authorities naturallyy considered McAfee a person of interest
in their investigation. As McAfee relates in his blog, when he heard from
his housekeeper that the police wanted to talk to him, he went into hiding.
He became a fugitive.
But it wasn’t the blog that ultimatelyy led law enforcement to McAfee. It
was a photo. And it wasn’t even his own.
A securityy researcher named Mark Loveless (better known in securityy
circles as Simple Nomad) noticed a picture of McAfee published on Twitter
byy Vice magazine in earlyy December of 2012. The photo showed Vice’s
editor standing next to McAfee in a tropical location—mayybe in Belize,
mayybe somewhere else.
Loveless knew that digital photos capture a lot of information about
when, where, and how theyy are taken, and he wanted to see what digital
information this photo might contain. Digital photos store what is known as
exchangeable image file, or EXIF, data. This is photo metadata, and it
contains mundane details such as the amount of color saturation in the
image so that the photo can be accuratelyy reproduced on a screen or byy a
printer. It can also, if the camera is equipped to do so, include the exact
longitude and latitude of the place where the photo was taken.
Apparentlyy the photo of McAfee with the Vice magazine editor was
taken with an iPhone 4S camera. Some cell phones ship with geolocation
automaticallyy enabled. Loveless got luckyy: the image posted in the online
file included the exact geolocation of John McAfee, who was, it turned out,
in neighboring Guatemala.
In a subsequent blog McAfee said he faked the data, but that seems
unlikelyy. Later he said he intended to reveal his location. More likelyy he got
lazyy.
Long storyy short, the Guatemalan police detained McAfee and wouldn’t
let him leave the countryy. He then suffered a health condition, was