McAfee was also smart and savvy enough to use blockchain AND create an automated deadman's switch to troll Google News for "McAfee dead" and release it automatically.

The reason all these deadman's switches haven't panned out isn't because they didn't exist, it's because it's really hard to make one that can't be found out and shut down before anybody gets the message.

If you have to reset it every few months they just monitor your traffic and find it. If it's checking a particular twitter then they beat it out of you and shut down the account. If you remember where the server is they beat it out of you and go turn it off.

But McAfee was so paranoid he may have even had like a suicide tooth or way to die before they could torture it out of him - or his brain may have been so fried from bath salts he couldn't remember where it was. So this could likely pan out.

McAfee was also smart and savvy enough to use blockchain AND create an automated deadman's switch to troll Google News for "McAfee dead" and release it automatically.

The reason all these deadman's switches haven't panned out isn't because they didn't exist, it's because it's really hard to make one that can't be found out and shut down before anybody gets the message.

If you have to reset it every few months they just monitor your traffic and find it. If it's checking a particular twitter then they beat it out of you and shut down the account. If you remember where there server is they beat it out of you and go turn it off.

But McAfee was so paranoid he may have even had like a suicide tooth or way to die before they could torture it out of him - or his brain may have been so fried from bath salts he couldn't remember where it was. So this could likely pan out.