Vice.com declassified John McAfee’s location via EXIF ​​metadata

Computer geek, inventor and millionaire John McAfee (John McAfee) - the author of the eponymous McAfee antivirus - is now on the run, hiding from the government of Belize. Despite the murder charges, John left many devoted friends and fans. For example, Vice journalists spent four days in a fugitive’s secret refuge — and published a photo taken on an iPhone.

Unfortunately, comrades have forgotten one important detail that the iPhone stores GPS coordinates in metadata. They quickly changed the photo, posted a version with erased EXIF-fields, but it was too late . The coordinates of the metadata pointed to Guatemala.

Today, John McAfee published “repentance” on his website, allegedly he specifically forged “XIF” (UPD 05.12: page removed).
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It must be said that EXIF ​​is a fake with the expectation that no one would believe in his confession about EXIF ​​fake - the trick is quite in the spirit of old McAfee. He is known for such jokes and trolling. Previously, he spread false information about himself and his place of residence, started a false page on Facebook and other sites. Even here he could specifically say “XIF” to create the appearance of an illiterate. Thus, McAfee lets in fog and sweeps away traces.

As for the murder, there is every reason to doubt the justice of the charges. The fact is that the Belize authorities have repeatedly extorted money from the American millionaire living there for various political campaigns, and in case of refusal they were threatened with reprisals. In May 2012, they stormed the estate of McAfee and arrested him on a false charge . Unfortunately, John is forced to live in Latin America and cannot return to the United States, where he is threatened with lawsuits from the victims of aero-tracking - an extreme sport invented by him.

UPD 05.12. John McAfee confirmed his whereabouts in Guatemala, removed from the site a page with “repentance” and scheduled a press conference.

UPD 06.12. John McAfee arrested in Guatemala for illegally crossing the border.