His end is a void of unknown — John McAfee s body is stuck in a Spanish prison morgue as a fight rages over his legacy morningstar.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from morningstar.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The mercurial programmer who amassed a fortune during the personal computing boom? The dotcom era proto-playboy who built a yoga retreat before chasing the thrill of flying open cockpit aircraft over the New Mexico desert? The hedonist who retreated to a Caribbean enclave, surrounding himself with pump action shotguns, bodyguards, and a harem of young women? The two-time US presidential candidate turned fugitive who went on the run after the murder of his neighbour?
Biographies, Mark Twain once observed, are but the clothes and buttons of a man. In McAfee’s case, can you realistically hope for more than lint and loose threads? His is a life of multiple acts, each as rich in drama and intrigue as the next. But they are buttressed by smoke and mirrors - the constructs of its complex and volatile protagonist, a man who amplified his mythology and misdirected those who came looking for the definitive narrative. When you tell the story of a master manipulator, can you ever hope to find
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|Mis à jour le 06/07/2021 à 07h05 John McAfee en 2019, à La Havane (Cuba). AFP
×Close La cavale délirante de l’ingénieur paranoïaque s’est achevée le 23 juin dans une prison catalane. Retrouvé pendu, l’inventeur du célèbre antivirus informatique McAfee prétendait avoir été arrêté vingt et une fois dans onze pays différents. Pilier de la Silicon Valley, multimillionnaire, il avait largué les amarres pour le Belize, paradis tropical et fiscal. Fou de femmes, de cryptomonnaie, d’armes, de chiens féroces et d’aventures, le génie est devenu bandit. Une histoire semée de hauts et de bugs.