Move over, Jeffrey Epstein, another high-profile prisoner has been found dead in his jail cell before his trial, with authorities claiming suicide. John McAfee, who wrote the first commercial anti- virus software, sold the company bearing his name and later urged customers to uninstall the software, was widely described as eccentric. He lived for a while in Belize but left that country in 2013 after being wanted for questioning by police over a murder. He made and lost most of a fortune believed to have totaled $100 million. McAfee was arrested in October last year at Barcelona Airport at the request of US authorities over alleged income tax evasion, and was being held in a prison in Barcelona, awaiting extradition, which had just been approved when he was found dead.
What makes the death so suspicious is that he had earlier warned against such an outcome. The New York Post reports:
Software tycoon John McAfee, who died from an apparent suicide in a Spanish jail cell Wednesday, sent a cryptic tweet last year that if he was found hanged behind bars like Jeffrey Epstein, it would be no fault of mine.
I am content in here. I have friends, the eccentric entrepreneur tweeted on Oct. 15. The food is good. All is well.
Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine.
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Even before his arrest, he was so convinced that US authorities were out to kill him and make it look like suicide that he had himself tatooed and tweeted:
McAfee also warned against the Deep State:
#1: Anthem To: Ada (#0)
Anthem posted on 2021-06-24 10:05:31 Reply Private Reply
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Pinguinite posted on 2021-06-24 10:43:11 Reply Private Reply
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Had to look it up. Piece of history I didn't know about.
Anthem posted on 2021-06-24 11:25:34 Reply Private Reply
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TommyTheMadArtist posted on 2021-06-24 23:52:11 Reply Private Reply
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I have a really hard time believing McAfee had 31 terabytes of dirt on the Deep Swamp, not counting things like Alex Jones videos and other public domain info. Reasons: 1) 31 terabytes is HUGE. 2) McAfee was never a Fed insider like Snowden and numerous others were so his access to such info, at least in first hand style, is doubtful. 3) If McAfee had such info, he simply wouldn't sit on it and keep it a secret as that contradicts his very personality. He would have been pumping it out no more than 24 hours after it crossed his desk.
As for "no indication of suicide" from his lawyer, it seems that's based on phone communication which McAfee would have been fully expectant of being bugged, and he certainly knew that if he gave any indication of suicide in any way whatsoever, that the jail warden would have thrown him naked into a padded room and done complete cavity searches every 3 hours and spoiled any such suicide plans. Secrecy was paramount.
The statement he made about if he was found Epsteined it would not be his "fault" is a bit short of a claim that he wouldn't take his own life. Any statement he made about not killing himself before he was arrested in Spain I'd take as inapplicable as in that context he had every reason to live and not die. Upon hearing the extreme likelihood that he would spend the rest of his life in a US prison, the sentiment and motives change dramatically.
Secret encrypted phones & phone services are already here, So McAfee isn't needed for that tech. But if one has no faith in contemporary encryption, then I suppose that argument doesn't hold much water. Then again, if you don't trust encryption, then how would one expect McAfee to create a secret phone?
McAfee was by all accounts a very intelligent guy who made his own rules all through his life. So I don't see him deciding to kill himself as an act of ultimate defiance to be any deviation from that lifelong practice. Much to the contrary, to me it's a case of him dying the way he lived. On his own terms.
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https://gab.com/threesevens/posts/106468399754766612Anthem posted on 2021-06-25 05:45:55 Reply Private Reply
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