I had to cancel numerous interviews with the press yesterday because of this and I apologize to all of those affected." "We made it to safety in spite of this handicap. "Yesterday was chaotic due to the accidental release of my exact co-ordinates by an unseasoned technician at Vice headquarters," he said. If all goes well I will do a press conference tomorrow," he said. I am in Guatemala and will be meeting with Guatemalan officials this morning. It was not easy to exit Belize and required many supporters in many countries. "I apologize for all of the misdirections over the past few days. Indeed, Tuesday morning McAfee deleted that blog post and posted an admission that he had fled Belize for Guatemala. I, for my own safety, manipulated the xif data on the image taken from my cellphone." But McAfee's claimed EXIF data spoof was dismissed by numerous security experts, including Cluley, who labeled it "baloney." Rocco for 'interfering' with the objectivity of their reporting. I have been ferocioously (sic) put my place by Mr. "I openly apologize to Vice Magazine for manipulating their recently published photo. McAfee responded later that day with a blog post to a site that he maintains with friends, saying that he'd faked the EXIF data. "Presumably whoever took the photo on their iPhone 4S had forgotten to turn off location services," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, in a blog post, noting that "those co-ordinates suggest that John McAfee was photographed in Guatemala, having crossed the Belize border."
That revelation surfaced after Vice magazine Monday published an online story, titled "We Are With John McAfee Right Now, Suckers," that included a photograph of McAfee with the magazine's editor-in-chief, Rocco Castoro.īut the suckers now appear to be Vice staff and McAfee, after Twitter user "Simple Nomad" Monday tweeted that he'd found EXIF data, including geotagged location coordinates, embedded in the photograph. Fugitive John McAfee - information security expert, founder of the McAfee antivirus firm, and prime suspect in a murder investigation in Belize - was apparently outsmarted by a smartphone.
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