Ο John McAfee, its eccentric and quite provocative millionaire founder companyς software McAfee Software, which was bought by Intel for $7.6 billion in 2010, today filed a document officially naming itself as a candidate for the next US presidential election, which will be held in 2016.
"I am starting a new party that has not yet been announced," McAfee said in the document (PDF) submitted to the Federal Electoral Commission. A spokesman later said that McAfee would set up a new "Cyber Party" or online party.
John McAfee, 69, left McAfee Software in 1994, seven years after starting the business. Intel would be renamed Intel Security last year. Mr. McAfee is running for president in Alabama, far from McAfee Software's Santa Clara-based headquarters in California.
Other candidates in the forthcoming presidential election of 2016 include Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig, former CEO of HP Carly Fiorina, and real estate magnate Donald Trump.
But John McAfee is one and only one. The publicity that manages to attract is not the best of its kind.
2012, Belize police chased McAfee because he was suspected of killing his neighbor.
2013, released a video showing how to uninstall McAfee virus protection software. The video, which is no longer available, contained violence, naked, and drug use, always starring McAfee. Another 2013 video shows McAfee shooting with a .50 caliber gun.
In 2014, during a speech at the Def Con hacking conference in las vegas, McAfee announced a news by clicking here filing of complaints, the Brownlist.
We should also mention that he has stated that uses πολλαπλά λειτουργικά συστήματα και συσκευές. “Ο λόγος που το κάνω αυτό είναι ότι καθιστά πιο δύσκολο στις services NSA, CIA, FBI, να με παρακολουθήσουν.”