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John McAfee Announces He Will Run For President of the United States

posted by janrinok on Thursday September 10 2015, @04:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the who-is-next? dept.

John McAfee running for president

bart writes:

Anti-virus software tycoon John McAfee plans to run for President, the developer confirmed on Tuesday. He will run under his own newly created "Cyber Party."

http://time.com/4025991/john-mcafee-running-for-president/?xid=tcoshare

The self-described "eccentric millionaire," known for a strange run-in with authorities in Belize three years ago, said his primary motivation to enter the race was the government's problems with security and surveillance.

"We are losing privacy at an alarming rate — we have none left. We've given up so much for the illusion of security and our government is simply dysfunctional," he said, adding that he plans to release an explainer for his new Cyber Party.

John McAfee is running [for] president

Rashek writes:

McAfee, developer of the first commercial anti-virus program, has said he is going to announce a bid for the White House, and will create the Cyber Party to do so. "I have a huge underground following on the web," he told CNN. The website McAfee2016.com has also popped up.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Thursday September 10 2015, @01:25PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Thursday September 10 2015, @01:25PM (#234638)

    McAfee is running for the same reason Hillary is, not that they think they can actually win

    I'm quite certain Hillary Clinton really believes she can win. She definitely believed she could win when she started to run back in 2013 (she didn't officially say that's what she was doing, but that's what she was doing), and until a few weeks ago she thought she had the Democratic nomination and general election both within easy reach.

    For folks who really don't stand a chance like Carly Fiorina, it's either an exercise in ego, effectively an interview for a job at a media outlet, and at least temporarily a job of repeating all the correct shibboleths for the next few months. And since Fiorina hasn't been able to work in any real jobs since wrecking Hewlett Packard, she's looking for something she can BS her way through doing. That she or most of the 17 candidates vying for the Republican nomination have no chance of winning is besides the point.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2015, @11:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2015, @11:54PM (#234990)

    Fiorina ran for gov of calinfornia too. I think she believes she has a chance and that the notoriety is just a nice consolation prize.