{"id":1953,"date":"2021-06-24T09:53:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T07:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/24\/john-mcafee-the-tech-pioneer-turned-fugitive\/"},"modified":"2021-06-24T09:53:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T07:53:37","slug":"john-mcafee-the-tech-pioneer-turned-fugitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/24\/john-mcafee-the-tech-pioneer-turned-fugitive\/","title":{"rendered":"John McAfee: the tech pioneer turned fugitive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founder of McAfee Associates went on the run in 2012 after his Belize neighbour was shot dead<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jun\/23\/john-mcafee-dead-spain-prison-extradition\">John McAfee: antivirus entrepreneur found dead in Spanish prison<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>John McAfee, the creator of a programme that is among the most-used virus protection programmes worldwide, was a controversial figure, cryptocurrency promoter, tax opponent and fugitive who twice made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/may\/01\/john-mcafee-libertarian-party-presidential-candidate\">long-shot runs for the US presidency<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>He publicly embraced drugs, guns and sex, and had a history of legal woes spanning from Tennessee to Central America to the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jun\/24\/john-mcafee-the-tech-pioneer-turned-fugitive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d5c4e83aa330250c08431616e7e33fed623bc0c7\/0_172_5298_3180\/master\/5298.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9bf1f7031b1e0b47e75478ec72a5ab70\" title=\"John McAfee: the tech pioneer turned fugitive\" \/>Founder of McAfee Associates went on the run in 2012 after his Belize neighbour was shot dead<br \/>\nJohn McAfee: antivirus entrepreneur found dead in Spanish prison<br \/>\nJohn McAfee, the creator of a programme that is among the most-used virus protection programmes worldwide, was a controversial figure, cryptocurrency promoter, tax opponent and fugitive who twice made long-shot runs for the US presidency.<br \/>\nHe publicly embraced drugs, guns and sex, and had a history of legal woes spanning from Tennessee to Central America to the Caribbean. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder of McAfee Associates went on the run in 2012 after his Belize neighbour was shot dead John McAfee: antivirus entrepreneur found dead in Spanish prison John McAfee, the creator of a programme that is among the most-used virus protection programmes worldwide, was a controversial figure, cryptocurrency promoter, tax opponent and fugitive who twice made &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/24\/john-mcafee-the-tech-pioneer-turned-fugitive\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John McAfee: the tech pioneer turned fugitive<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}