There’s an old saying in journalism that goes something like: Scoundrels are way more fun to cover than normies.
Say what you will about John McAfee—and today, when news of his apparent suicide in a Barcelona jail seeped out, people said a lot—the 75 year old was a blast to cover.
John McAfee Found Dead in Spanish Prison Cell: Report
From his first entrance onto the national stage in 1992, as the human face of the novel computer virus known as Michelangelo, he generated all the excitement and flimflam of the Music Man. Never mind that the Michelangelo Virus turned out to be a hypefest—McAfee was able to capitalize on it big time. The worldwide hysteria he provoked helped him launch an antivirus software company that, when he sold it a scant few years later, made him $100 million.
The whispers around McAfee in those early days—never proven, of course—were that he worked with labs to create some of those viruses. That was probably industry jealousy: his software was the
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