Analysis: McAfee, ever an enigma

• Software mogul immersed in yoga, hang gliding, world travel
• McAfee evaded authorities for weeks, armed with tweets, blog postings, cell phones
• Founder of widely used anti-virus software firm in 1980s

McAfee was the proverbial enigma wrapped in a riddle, to torturedly paraphrase Winston Churchill.

Few people in tech ever met the man who founded computer-security giant McAfee in the late 1980s -- only to vanish from Silicon Valley shortly after the company went public.

McAfee's innate curiosity took them to places far away, both physically and intellectually.

The software mogul immersed himself into topics as diverse as yoga and hang gliding, venturing from New Mexico to Belize. It was in the latter country where the eccentric, 67-year-old McAfee ran afoul of the law as a "person of interest" in the killing of a fellow American.

McAfee evaded authorities for more than three weeks, armed only with a Twitter account, cryptic blog postings, dozens of cell phone numbers and the aid of a faithful vanguard of high-tech handlers.

Now, with his arrest in Guatemala, John McAfee is in police custody and faces a quick expulsion to Belize. He's blogging from jail, and, more famous than ever, faces a murky future. Yet he still remains a mystery to the tech world.