John McAfee, Spanish Prison Death and Legacy
Software pioneer John McAfee was found dead at age 75 in a Spanish prison cell shortly after a court approved his extradition to the United States. McAfee faced U.S. charges for tax evasion and cryptocurrency pump-and-dump schemes. Despite a previous "Whackd" tattoo intended to signal he would never commit suicide, authorities are investigating the death as a self-inflicted act. His legacy as a promoter of antivirus software and his eccentric public persona are noted.
john mcafee· spain· extradition· tax evasion· sec· antivirus· suicide
00:00 Oh, I'm so excited! Adam Curry. John C. DeVorah It's Thursday June 24th 2021 This is your award-winning Gimbal Nation Media Assassination Episode 1358 This is no agenda Watching the WAC scan! Broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas. Capital of the drone star state In The Morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where well...I figured I wasn't gonna get to lunch with John McAfee anyway I'm John C. Duvall It's Crackpot and Buzzkill In The Morning Hey man don't you just hate that? I just hate it Some people do anything to get out of a dinner
00:40 This is a lunch. No, it was a dinner Yeah probably wasn't there because it was I bought him to dinner the first time you know You know how I know what's at dinner because we have The end of show mix from the interview Nick the rat did with McAfee where he brought this up? Where yes yeah, yeah, they got cussed out so what do you think well here's the report from NPR John McAfee dead Hold on a second Okay, report. Software pioneer John McAfee has been found dead at 75 in a prison cell in Spain that's according to his lawyer as NPR's Bobby Allen reports McAfee's death was reported just hours after a Spanish court approved his extradition of the US on tax evasion charges. John McAfee was best known for the antivirus software he founded bearing his name but in recent years he's been in legal hot water
01:31 Since last October, he's been in a Spanish prison awaiting extradition to the U.S on tax evasion charges The Securities and Exchange Commission has also accused him of making millions off a pump-and-dump scheme using cryptocurrency Not long after a Spanish court approved his transfer to the US to stand trial on those charges He was found dead His lawyer Nisheh Sanon says McAfee will always be remembered as a fighter saying the US government Quote tried to erase him, but they failed authorities are still investigating the cause of death Hmm so that the weird part was that he had just the extradition order adjustment signed. That was that's what was weird Well, why was that weird? well you'd think that if you've been well You think if you're being extradited then either you're happy or
02:20 Well, I guess. Why would he want to kill himself over being extradited? Well he didn't want him to spend the rest of his life in an American prison, I guess. Like Spain is better?! What was he arrested for in Spain? I have no idea! The reporting... I think it's because of the American charge. Hmm, that's possible. Yeah well certainly for SEC issues. It was weird because he was kind of on my radar like a week ago and I'm actually looking for it I remember, I thought it was from him. I remember seeing a tweet of something to the effect of... ...I'm not doing so well, i'm a bit down today which of course I can't find anymore and It's just one of those peripheral things and I wasn't quite sure if that if I had read that properly or not. Jenny Jardin was tweeting about him a week ago as well
03:15 What did she say? She was saying he knows more. He, she thinks that He and this is before he killed himself That he knows something about the FBI or the FBI did something... He knows something about the or knew something about the FDA FBI But you know The thing that's always weird is when someone says hey I'm not gonna get I'm not gonna suicide myself And he got this tattoo whacked to commemorate that he was not going to suicide himself and then of course it happens, and then you gotta wonder... is Jenny Jardin posted another tweet she said on the other hand there's also lots of people who say these things like I'll never kill myself and they actually are planning to do it all along. This is the problem with making that commentary yeah yeah so I know what have we lost let's put it that way
04:11 Seriously, have we I mean III feel about personality. Yeah a person yeah, I feel we lost color you know It's one of those people you just want to have them around they provide color it's like how they provide color Color and color commentary both yeah, and you know like comic strip blogger in a way He's the guy who? Invent if it wasn't for McAfee we had to remember this part he's always been a promoter when he he's the one who popularized And I don't think i can get much argument from anyone who actually followed this when it happened. He's the one who popularized viruses to the point where it made people want to develop them
04:52 I always suspected him of being behind a few, quite honestly. Like what a great business! There's a lot of people that feel that he was behind a few but he had this newsletter about viruses and he promoted them and he called all the news...all the computer journalists up and so I ran into him first. I was talking to him on the phone quite a bit because he said oh it's this is gonna be the worst thing has ever happened and then he promoted the idea of viruses and to the point where a lot of them I mean in the early days even Peter Norton said there's no such thing, you know. There is no way this bull crap and really seeing it out Peter Norton developed and he had the solution Wow Peter Norton said that huh? I believe so yeah because he had Norton utilities but then later did he added antivirus stuff later oh interesting interesting Yeah, I'll miss him although we got a little tedious at the end there
05:48 I got is always tedious. I like that the documentary where it turns out he was into poop sex He's what he was into poop sex don't you remember there was a whole documentary about him remember that now? You just gross me out Sorry, I'm not speaking ill of the dead. He probably would have thought very funny anyway Yeah Love and lit love and lit John McAfee who knows who knows will we ever know oh Should we do a quick, quick trip around the horn on some COVID stuff as it's not a lot obviously but some stuff. Yeah I only have two clips and my two clips are on the Delta variant. Yes that's what i was going to start with. Not the delta variant! Oh not the... The Delta variant variant. Oh the Delta Plus
