John McAfee doc unravels the downfall of the notorious tech mogul: ‘A brilliant, manipulative person’
nypost.comhis net worth was an estimated $100 million, and he stepped away from his successful company in 1994. But in retirement, his life took a series of strange turns.
He became increasingly obsessed with using his computer prowess to tap into devices around the world so that he could spy on governments, high-profile criminals and others that intrigued him.“John told me that he created a software [that] enabled him to spy on anyone in the world.
The CIA, FBI, the KGB, NSA, even the White House. Everyone,” Alex Cody Foster, a ghostwriter who worked for McAfee, says in the doc. “John had access to information on virtually everybody in the world.”In 2012, he was living on a beach in San Pedro, Belize, when a neighbor, Gregory Faull, suddenly died.He and McAfee had clashed over their pets — Faull had a prized parrot that he feared McAfee’s beloved dogs would attack.
Four of McAfee’s pups were mysteriously poisoned, and he had to shoot them out of mercy. Soon after, Faull was found dead by a gunshot wound to the head.
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