Vice.com declassified location of John McAfee via the EXIF metadata



Computer geek, inventor and millionaire John McAfee (John McAfee) is the author of the namesake of McAfee antivirus now is on the run, hiding from the government of Belize. Despite the murder charges, John left a lot of loyal friends and fans. For example, the Vice journalists spent four days in the hideout of fugitive and published photo taken on the iPhone.

Unfortunately, the comrades have forgotten one important detail that the iPhone stores the metadata with the GPS coordinates. They quickly changed the picture, posted version stripped of all the EXIF fields, but it was too late. The coordinates from the metadata pointed to Guatemala.

Today John McAfee on its website published the "repentance", he allegedly specially forged "XIF" (UPD 05.12: page removed).

I must say that fake EXIF with the expectation that no one will believe his confession about faking the EXIF trick is in the spirit of the old McAfee. He is known for such jokes and trolling. He used to spread false information about yourself and your place of residence, brought about the page on Facebook and other sites. Even here he could specifically say "XIF", to create the appearance of an illiterate. Thus, McAfee is letting the fog and covering her tracks.

As for murder, then there is every reason to doubt the validity of the charges. The fact that the government of Belize has been repeatedly extorted from living there an American billionaire the money to various political campaigns, and in case of refusal threatened with death. In may 2012, they stormed the estate McAfee and he was arrested on false charges. Unfortunately, John is forced to live in Latin America and can not return to the United States, where him threaten lawsuits from the victims of aerotrekking — invented extreme sport.

UPD 05.12. John McAfee confirmed his whereabouts in Guatemala, was removed from the website page with "repentance" and appointed a press-conference.

UPD 06.12. John McAfee arrested in Guatemala for illegally crossing the border.
Article based on information from habrahabr.ru

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