Look, I get it, it's funny, but please stop throwing conspiratory shit around. The most likely explanation, by far, is that the photo is real and the EXIF tags are real. If the photo is not real, why care about the tags? You weren't there. And if the photo was real, but the tags are fake, why tell the police so?
But if the photo is real, and the EXIF tags are real, then, and only then, it makes sense to claim you modified them to throw the cops around. Well, it makes sense only if you're delusional, naive or extremely desperate. Any of which could be applied to McAfee. Dude's psycho. Remember that story he posted about how he stood six hours in his porch at night while he was stalked by "cops hiding in bushes", waking up covered in puke and babbling? He's completely lost it. Those jerkass Vice guys should've just got him to a Guatemalan psychiatrist, instead of making "ironic" bitch jokes and laughing at a mentally disturbed person. Fucking hipsters make me sick.
And yeah, the photo is real. Sure, the head is blurred, it looks fake. Just cover it with something and look at the body. Tada, it's real. The head distortion is just those fat fingers on cam sticking grease over the lens.
Vice Magazine reporters are indeed with me in Guatemala.
Yesterday was chaotic due to the accidental release of my
exact co-ordinates by an unseasoned technician at Vice
headquarters. We made it to safety in spite of this
handicap. I had to cancel numerous interviews with the
press yesterday because of this and I apologize to all of
those affected.
What is with the desire to villanize him? As much as people hate intrusive governments here, there is also this opinion that anyone who might be a criminal is just a shit person and deserves no respect.
I'd call it resourceful. To have my location leaked like that and have the forethought to engage in that much subterfuge while physically fleeing?
What forethought & subterfuge? Lying about your location after it's leaked is not subtle and was made up on the fly, according to his own account. (Also I'm not vilianizing him, not sure why you thought that.)
I agree, I think I was projecting others' comments on you which was unfair. I think "desperate" is probably the right characterization and doesn't really comment on his situation otherwise, sorry.
But if the photo is real, and the EXIF tags are real, then, and only then, it makes sense to claim you modified them to throw the cops around. Well, it makes sense only if you're delusional, naive or extremely desperate. Any of which could be applied to McAfee. Dude's psycho. Remember that story he posted about how he stood six hours in his porch at night while he was stalked by "cops hiding in bushes", waking up covered in puke and babbling? He's completely lost it. Those jerkass Vice guys should've just got him to a Guatemalan psychiatrist, instead of making "ironic" bitch jokes and laughing at a mentally disturbed person. Fucking hipsters make me sick.
And yeah, the photo is real. Sure, the head is blurred, it looks fake. Just cover it with something and look at the body. Tada, it's real. The head distortion is just those fat fingers on cam sticking grease over the lens.