How Vice Led to John McAfee’s Downfall

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How Trusting in Vice Led to John McAfee’s Downfall

John McAfee cast his lot with reporters from Vice, who blew his location, lied to readers, and led to his downfall.

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/12/how-vice-got-john-mcafee-caught/

Vice photographer Robert King apparently lied on his Facebook page and Twitter in order to protect McAfee. Like McAfee, he claimed that the geodata in the photo had been manipulated to conceal their true location.

This explanation, of course, made no damn sense at all. If McAfee and King were trying to conceal their location by spreading disinformation, why immediately admit to it?