- Apr 24, 2013
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John McAfee, the idiosyncratic ex-fugitive founder of McAfee antivirus is running for the post of the President of the United States next year. McAfee, who grabbed international headlines in 2012 during a run from Belize authorities, on Wednesday filed the requisite paperwork to become a US presidential candidate in the November 2016 election as part of his new Cyber Party.
McAfee said that as a party candidate he will obviously be focusing on cyber security. According to the campaign video he uploaded on his YouTube channel, the 69-year old software pioneer wants to put more limits on the government’s reach into Americans’ lives, strengthen privacy protections and “return sanity to the government”.
In his video, he recounts America’s Declaration of Independence and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, which he calls texts that are not representative of the way Americans’ online privacy is treated today.
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