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"This is becoming sad, really. Today the official blog of John McAfee posted a short update to the effect that Vice Magazine outed the fugitive so that it could record and, presumably, profit from his capture.\r\n\r\nTo gist the sentences for you would be a disservice. Here are the critical bits, written in the key of crazy [Formatting: TNW]:\r\nBased on new information. Mr. McAfee is terminating his relationship with Vice Magazine.\u00A0 Due to information just received, It is no longer clear to Mr. McAfee that the \u201Caccidental\u201D release of his co-ordinates due to Vice Magazine\u2019s editorial department\u2019s failure to remove location data from their now notorious photo, was indeed an accident.\r\n\r\nThis incident led directly to Mr. McAfee\u2019s arrest. The reason, possibly, was that Vice wanted exclusive access to Mr. McAfee\u2019s arrest, which they in fact obtained and broadcast. This, and subsequent developments, including a breach of verbal contract, has led Mr. McAfee to terminate all contact withVice.\r\nMcAfee does admit that the two fine folks out with him in the field, as it were, did not know of the plot. Furthermore, &amp;quot;legal proceedings are under way.&amp;quot; Oh dear.\r\n\r\nWhy does TNW view this update as something in the realm of bunk? It's not the fact that McAfee has used his blog to spread patent\u00A0misinformation\u00A0before - he has - but more that specific episode of the man-on-the-lamb escapade that we have been enduring is an every shifting story.\r\n\r\nTo wit, here is the first entry in the Saga of the Oops Photo:\r\nOops. Vice, an online magazine known for in-depth pieces on often salacious topics today\u00A0bragged\u00A0that it is with the embattled technologist John McAfee, keeping tabs with him during his time on the run. Their headline says it all: \u201CWe are with John McAfee, suckers.\u201D\r\n\r\nHowever, they appear to have made a key error. In the photo in their post announcing that they shadowing McAfee, they appear to have left exif data in the image. That allowed it to be pinpointed to a location in Guatemala.\r\nAnd here is round two of that tale:\r\nHowever, in what may be an example of\u00A0ex post factohistory shifting, McAfee is claiming that he in fact tampered the data, and then caused a false reason for the photo to be posted. We\u2019re not kidding.\r\n\r\nHere\u2019s the man himself, on his own blog, in\u00A0a post\u00A0entitled \u201CAnother Apology:\u201D\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I openly apologize to Vice Magazine for manipulating their recently published photo.\u00A0 I have been ferocioously [sic] put my place by Mr. Rocco for \u201Cinterfering\u201D with the objectivity of their reporting.\u00A0 I, for my own safety, manipulated the xif data on the image taken from my cellphone, and created a fake emrgency [sic] so that the urgency of movement led, as I knew it would, to the hasty posting on their website.\u00A0 I felt that our tenuous situation demanded action, and that was the action that I chose.\r\n\r\nI do not believe that Vice will remain with me further.\u00A0 Again, my apologies.&amp;quot;\r\nWell then.\r\n\r\nThus, Vice publishes the picture, we nail the coordinates, McAfee then invents the tale that he changed the data to throw folks off the scent. Thus, he wasn't actually in Guatemala, was he? He was, he later admitted:\r\nIt was only yesterday that we reported that man-on-the-run fugitive John McAfee was\u00A0claiming to have falsified the metadata\u00A0of a photo that placed him in Guatemala.\r\n\r\nWell, it seems he IS in fact\u00A0in Guatemala after all, after exiting Belize with the aid of \u201Cmany supporters. He says:\r\n\r\n\u201CI apologize for all of the misdirections over the past few days.\u00A0 It was not easy to exit Belize and required many supporters in many countries.\u00A0 I am in Guatemala and will be meeting with Guatemalan officials this morning.\u00A0 If all goes well I will do a press conference tomorrow.\u201D\r\nSo the accidentially hot photo was a fake that was real that was denied and then confirmed. Whatever.\r\n\r\nMcAfee is behind bars and is in a spot of trouble, as his petition for asylum was turned down. Lashing out against Vice smacks of desperation and the desire of another media cycle.\r\n\r\nPhoto credit:\u00A0JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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