Anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee, who buried himself in the sand to hide from police in Belize, faked a heart attack in a Guatemalan detention center and admits playing the "crazy card," says he's now ready for his next adventure: a return to Silicon Valley.
At the age of 67, McAfee is promising to launch a new cyber security company that will make the Internet safer for everyone.
"My new technology is going to provide a new type of Internet, a decentralized, floating and moving Internet that is impossible to hack, impossible to penetrate and vastly superior in terms of its facility and neutrality. It solves all of our security concerns," McAfee said in an interview with The San Jose Mercury News.
Despite his colorful lifestyle and his even more colorful recent history, McAfee remains one of the most prominent entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley history. In 1989 he founded the antivirus software company in Santa Clara that still bears his name and once was worth an estimated $100 million. In 1994 McAfee ended his relationship with the company and moved to Colorado.
In a nearly one-hour interview, McAfee was typically tantalizing and elusive, declining to answer other questions about his proposed company, saying more details will come Saturday when he speaks at the inaugural C2SV music festival and tech conference at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.
But he did mention the two competing movies about his life that are due out within the next two years, along with a biographical book, a 90-minute TV documentary and a series of graphic comic books about his five years in Belize.
"In the crazy topsy turvy world of America, the blend of good looks, money and technology could be formed into a brew that could be a Hollywood success story," said Roger L. Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates,
Police in Belize still want to talk to McAfee, who remains wanted as a "person of interest" in the shooting death of his neighbor, police spokesman Rafael Martinez told this newspaper Tuesday.
No one has been arrested in connection with the November murder of Gregory Viant Faull, a 52-year-old, fellow expatriate who had well-publicized run-ins with McAfee in Belize before he was discovered two doors down in his home with a single gunshot to the head.
At the age of 67, McAfee is promising to launch a new cyber security company that will make the Internet safer for everyone.
"My new technology is going to provide a new type of Internet, a decentralized, floating and moving Internet that is impossible to hack, impossible to penetrate and vastly superior in terms of its facility and neutrality. It solves all of our security concerns," McAfee said in an interview with The San Jose Mercury News.
Despite his colorful lifestyle and his even more colorful recent history, McAfee remains one of the most prominent entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley history. In 1989 he founded the antivirus software company in Santa Clara that still bears his name and once was worth an estimated $100 million. In 1994 McAfee ended his relationship with the company and moved to Colorado.
In a nearly one-hour interview, McAfee was typically tantalizing and elusive, declining to answer other questions about his proposed company, saying more details will come Saturday when he speaks at the inaugural C2SV music festival and tech conference at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.
But he did mention the two competing movies about his life that are due out within the next two years, along with a biographical book, a 90-minute TV documentary and a series of graphic comic books about his five years in Belize.
"In the crazy topsy turvy world of America, the blend of good looks, money and technology could be formed into a brew that could be a Hollywood success story," said Roger L. Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates,
Police in Belize still want to talk to McAfee, who remains wanted as a "person of interest" in the shooting death of his neighbor, police spokesman Rafael Martinez told this newspaper Tuesday.
No one has been arrested in connection with the November murder of Gregory Viant Faull, a 52-year-old, fellow expatriate who had well-publicized run-ins with McAfee in Belize before he was discovered two doors down in his home with a single gunshot to the head.
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