I wonder if any of these laptops had a doctored version of McAfee antivirus so that the users would think they were protected. A real security program would of at least known something was going on.
John McAfee the Belize spymaster uncovers 'ricin, terrorist plots'
Infosec daredevil John McAfee claims he became a spymaster in Belize after giving laptops infected with espionage malware to police and government officials. McAfee, who moved to the central American low-tax haven some years ago, further claimed he supervised a ring of 23 women and six men as operatives, and tasked them with …
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Tuesday 8th January 2013 10:53 GMT Wombling_Free
Why use a doctored version?
"I wonder if any of these laptops had a doctored version of McAfee antivirus so that the users would think they were protected."
Why use a doctored version? I thought the standard version of McAfee led users to believe they were protected - mostly from McAfee's own woeful 'upgrades' admittedly.
And why are you all cowering behind AC? Are you scared of John? Is he some uber-cyber-god who can make electricity leap from your wireless mouse and kill you?
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Monday 7th January 2013 17:34 GMT Don Jefe
Waste of Time
Crazy and stupid people abound all over the world (in case you haven't noticed). It is the smart and cunning that get killed. For a government to do away with someone like McAfee or Assange is a waste of time and resources. Plus without nutters like this what would we have to laugh at?
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Monday 7th January 2013 17:58 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: sticking a tampon up his nose to pretend to be a Guatemalan trinket salesman
The better known of his two disguises. The second and as yet unused disguise consisted of wearing underpants on his head, sticking pencils up his nose whilst saying 'wibble wibble'. We might get to see it yet if extradition beckons...
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Monday 7th January 2013 19:17 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: sticking a tampon up his nose to pretend to be a Guatemalan trinket salesman
It was the style at the time. You kids these days.
Anyway, I was on my way to Belize and I had a tampon up my nose -- which was the style at the time. I had an all-female spy force that was directing my hidden keystroke loggers to prove that the government was secretly providing passports to Lebanese males every month while the Zetas cooked up ricin. But the important part was I had a tampon up my nose -- which was the style at the time.
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Monday 7th January 2013 17:27 GMT Herby
One of two things are happening here.
Either this is all very very false, and he is shorted between the headphones, or it is all very very true, and we all need to be afraid.
Unfortunately the "bogometer" tends to point towards the first conclusion.
If this is in the 'very very true' region we might never hear about it. Of course this might be the plot for the next Bond movie, as we all need villains. Where is the guy with the white cat?
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Tuesday 8th January 2013 09:07 GMT Ben Rosenthal
Rekall, Rekall, Rekall
It won't make the slightest difference to me Doug, but the consequences to you will be devastating. In your mind, I'll be dead, and with no one to guide you out, you'll be stuck here in permanent psychosis. The walls of reality will come crashing down around you. One minute, you're the savior of the rebel cause; next thing you know, you'll be Cohaagen's bosom buddy. You'll even have fantasies about alien civilizations as you requested; but in the end, back on Earth, you'll be lobotomized! So get a grip on yourself, Doug, and put down that gun!
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Tuesday 8th January 2013 09:12 GMT Anonymous Coward
Load of old rubbish
The guy claims to have purchased 75 laptops to hand out to various people in positions of authority. His evidence for this? A poor quality photo of THREE Acer Aspire Netbook boxes. If he had actually bought 75 I'd have expected to see better evidence than that like erm...... 75 boxes or netbooks?
As for the key logging / activating webcams remotely. I'm glad I use Linux....
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Tuesday 8th January 2013 12:51 GMT apjanes
Um... is he still living there??
Perhaps the strongest evidence to his apparent nuttiness is that he's willing allege publicly on the Internet that he has stitched up high ranking and powerful people in the country HE IS CURRENTLY LIVING IN! Surely if he really did this he'd want to keep quiet about it... forever??!
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Thursday 10th January 2013 08:44 GMT johnnymi5
John McAfee Secret Agent of MI5
Go on facebook and discover the truth about John McAfee!
Search on facebook for "johnny.english.and.john.mcafee" and you will read about new disguises and his newest mission, the rescue of the royal poodle!
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