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McAfee Part 4: The White House

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Bloomberg

Business, Tech News, Technology, News

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

John McAfee is back in America. He meets a new business partner who helps broker a lucrative deal. As reporter Jamie Tarabay learns, the new associate eventually inspires McAfee to make a long-shot bid for the US presidency.

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In December 2015, there was a high profile shooting in San Bernardino, California that killed 14 people and injured 22 others.

0:41.0

Tonight the nation grappling with what officials now say may be the deadliest terror attack on our homeland since 1911.

0:48.0

The FBI was brought in to investigate the shooting as a terrorist attack.

0:53.0

And they asked Apple to open up the shooter's iPhone.

0:57.0

As refusing to follow a government order to hack the San Bernardino's shooter's phone.

1:01.0

The FBI believes important clues about accomplices and more plots could be hidden on that phone.

1:06.0

But Apple says that complying with the government order could endanger everyone with an iPhone.

1:11.0

This conflict ignited a heated debate over whether it was okay to sacrifice civil liberties for authorities purporting to fight violent extremism.

1:23.0

John McAfee saw an opportunity and jumped into the fray.

1:27.0

Here he is on Russia today.

1:30.0

The FBI needs to get this act together and tell the truth saying, yeah, we need it because we want to spy on Americans.

1:35.0

Cool. Let's talk about that.

1:37.0

But please don't try to deceive us by pretending we're idiots. We aren't.

1:43.0

At the time, McAfee had been back in the US for more than two years after being deported from Central America.

1:51.0

He was active on Twitter and appearing on television talk shows trying to reassert himself as a cybersecurity authority.

1:59.0

My colleague William Turton was covering the aftermath of the San Bernardino shooting for a new site called the Daily Dot.

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