John McAfee, founder of the eponymous antivirus software McAfee, is known for many things. And unfortunately for him, the many things aren't the good things.
Born in 1945, the English-American computer programmer and businessman founded the software company McAfee Associates in 1987 and ran it until 1994, the year he resigned. Following the purchase of McAfee Associates by Intel in 2011, McAfee became a wealthy man.
Since leaving McAfee Associates, he has founded a number of companies. McAfee is also known to have been a political activist.
In 2012, he was a fugitive, as he was on the run from the Belizean authorities in Central America.
It was journalists from Vice who managed to track him down, and published an image of him online.
This was unfortunate for McAfee, because the photo that was taken, had the location data embedded in it.
This "mistake" inadvertently revealed that McAfee was in Guatemala, in a resort in early December of 2012. Because of this photo McAfee was soon found, and arrested.
"We Are With John McAfee Right Now, Suckers," Vice wrote in an article.
The company's editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro and photographer/videographer Robert King have been following McAfee for the past few days, "documenting his life on the run."
McAfee's location was first revealed by a Twitter user who goes by the name @simplenomad.
The user downloaded the photo of McAfee and Vice's journalist, and examined the image file, to then discover that it had been taken earlier Monday by an iPhone next to a swimming pool at an upscale resort in Guatemala called Ranchon Mary.
"Check out the metadata in the photo," the Twitter user tweeted. "Oooops."
Once the news was out, Vice quickly replaced the photo with a new one that had the location data removed.
But things were too late.
When he was a fugitive, McAfee asked Chad Essley, an American cartoonist and animator, to set up a blog so that McAfee could write about his experience while on the run. McAfee was in Guatemala City, where he attempted to seek political asylum.
Through this blog, McAfee also tried to suggest that the metadata had been "manipulated" in order to throw the authorities off his trail.
But later, McAfee admitted the mistake, and blamed it on an "unseasoned technician at Vice headquarters."
Check the metadata in the photo. Oooops.... http://t.co/pZOcGWm3
— Mark Loveless (@simplenomad) December 3, 2012
"Vice Magazine reporters are indeed with me in Guatemala. Yesterday was chaotic due to the accidental release of my exact co-ordinates," McAfee wrote on his blog.
"I apologize for all of the misdirections over the past few days. It was not easy to exit Belize and required many supporters in many countries."
When John McAfee arrived in the U.S. after being deported from Guatemala, he was with Janice Dyson, then a prostitute in South Beach, Miami.
McAfee became an international media sensation after the death of Gregory Viant Faull, an American expatriate, in mid-November of 2012.
The authorities at Belize started looking for McAfee as a "person of interest" in connection to the murder Faull.
Faull was found dead from a gunshot wound on November 11, at his home on the island of Ambergris Caye, the largest island in Belize. Faull was McAfee's neighbor at the time.