If you haven’t been following the story of fugitive tech millionaire John McAfee, there are some important digital revelations that you should be aware of in case you ever decide to go on the lam. McAfee is the founder of McAfee, Inc., the gigantic anti-virus software company. He recently got caught trying to escape the police in Guatemala because a picture that was taken of him had his GPS location. The photo was published in Vice, an international arts and culture magazine. Either McAfee forgot or he wanted to be caught because he allowed a Vice editor to take an iPhone photo of him that contained the metadata location information.

McAfee knows better than that. The minute the photo was published mini-bloggers on Twitter alerted everyone to “Check the Metadata” in order to find out where he was hiding.

(Metadata describes how large the picture is, the color depth, the image resolution, when the image was created, and other data.)

The genius but bizarre software developer had invited Rocco Castoro, the editor-in-chief of Vice magazine, along with Robert King, a photographer, to chronicle his run from the police by traveling with him. McAfee is a “person of interest” in the death of his neighbor, Gregory Faull, in Belize, which is his official residence. McAfee crossed the border to Guatemala in order to avoid interrogation. McAfee and Faull are both American citizens living in Belize.

You can read all about the case here in a recent New York Times story. You can also read here about how some members of the press feel manipulated by McAfee because of prior shenanigans.

The interesting facts I want to point out are that McAfee has always been hungry for editorial coverage at any expense. How much of this photo error are we expected to believe? How legal is it for two members of the media to know about the whereabouts of a fugitive and not immediately report it? As the story continues to unfold, we will learn more about the who, what, and where of the story.

Meanwhile, the tech press is all over it. Wired.com was first to report, “Oops, Did Vice Just Give Away John McAfee’s Location With Photo Metadata?” When Vice realized the blunder they had made, they quickly tried to replace the photo without any GPS data, but it was too late. The police quickly captured the colorful computer pioneer.