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John David McAfee (/ ˈ m æ k ə f iː / MAK-ə-fee; 18 September 1945 – 23 June 2021) was a British-American computer programmer, businessman, and two-time presidential candidate who unsuccessfully sought the Libertarian Party nomination for president of the United States in 2016 and in 2020.
Aug 24, 2022 · A new Netflix documentary, Running With The Devil: The Wild World Of John McAfee, tries to make sense of a confusing and ultimately tragic life
- He was born in the UK. McAfee was born in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England, to Don McAfee (an American soldier) and Joan (a British woman) on September 18, 1945.
- McAfee’s early years were difficult. Due to his abusive home environment, McAfee had to endure the abuse and violence of his alcoholicfather, who eventually killed himself when John was 15.
- He endured a strong substance abuse problem. Throughout his life, John McAfee battled alcohol and drug addiction, a battle that has been widely reported.
- McAfee worked at many tech companies, such as NASA. Before founding McAfee Associates, John McAfee had a varied career path where he worked for NASA(as a programmer for NASA’s Institute of Space Studies in New York from 1968 – 1970), Xerox (as a software designer), Univac (as an operating system architect), CSC (as a software consultant) and Lockheed Martin, where he was part of a development team that worked on a classified voice-recognition program.
Jun 24, 2021 · When software pioneer John McAfee was found dead in a Spanish jail, it marked the end of a saga spanning two presidential campaigns, a murder investigation, millions won and lost in the tech field, and years spent evading authorities.
Jun 24, 2021 · Better luck. Around this time, McAfee started to promote crypto-currencies. And at first, he appeared to have better luck in his business ventures than his political career. He used his...
Jul 11, 2021 · McAfee was an unorthodox fugitive, employing fake dreadlocks, a multicoloured beanie hat, and a tampon among his props to feign disguise, and enlisting the media’s help to tell his side of...
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Jun 26, 2021 · Since pioneering his groundbreaking, namesake computer virus software in the 1990s, McAfee had veered close to arrest on many occasions: suspicions of running a methamphetamine lab, of sexual assault, pursuit of underage girls (at least one of whom tried to kill him) and dodgy cryptocurrency business deals were rarely off the radar.
