Monday, November 19, 2012

John McAfee - Drugs, Meth Labs, and the Ultimate Destruction of Trust

As a society, we are hard to forgive the many distinguished drug users who present themselves to us in the media every day. The question is why do so many seem to be so quick to forgive a man who ties his name to something that is as important as McAfee computer antivirus? Large companies use these programs to protect serious and valuable content in their systems and the average user could also be seriously affected by any lack in attention to detail.

John McAfee produced a powerful form of computer antivirus that became so huge that he, himself soon found his personal worth to be valued at over 100 million dollars. Unfortunately, McAfee took part in too many scandalous activities with his money that eventually resulted in a huge negative response from McAfee anti-virus fans; not to mention, he wasted such a large amount of it that he now has less than 4 million dollars!
 
Dipping into drugs and negative behaviors in the ways John McAfee has elected to do so is definitely something to be frowned upon by his acquaintances, the public, and especially the brand he ties his name to. Suspected to be somebody who associates with Belize gangs, McAfee’s home was raided and searched by the local gang control forces where he was found harboring various weapons, as well as what was assumed to be narcotics, in his small beach-front cottage in Belize.

McAfee waited and watched while they searched his home from a hole on the beach he had dug to bury himself in with a cardboard box over his head. He had been to the local jail, where he was forced to live in a small cell with a bunch of other people and use a crate for a latrine. To say the very least, he was not eager to go back.

McAfee has slowly intertwined himself with all the things which damage a person’s persona and ruin their career, along with their life. Drugs, sex, and gangs seem to be the popular wrong-doings of those who have a bit of change to spend, and McAfee is no exception. He has not stepped in a single positive direction once since he moved to Belize to “help improve the country by creating antibiotics from all natural jungle plants.”

Not only was McAfee arrested for being in the possession of drugs, it was suspected that he was also operating a meth lab in his home in Belize. He claimed that the equipment that was found at the residence was simply a way to conduct his experiments regarding the making antibiotics from plants of the land and that it had absolutely nothing to do with methamphetamine, which is what they accused him of being affiliated with.

Getting himself so wound up in such negative ways could have a heavily adverse effect on the quality and trust in the brand which holds his name. By irresponsibly dumping endless amounts of money into whatever he pleases instead of building newer and better antivirus that could compete with the smarter threats of today, he is ultimately ruining his company and his sought after and trusted antivirus. As a consumer, one must assume that the poor decisions made by McAfee recently have been a life-time and habitual habit. And ultimately, the trust that McAfee Antivirus Software once had must now be questioned.  

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