That's interesting because his new company joined steemit recently and were flogging some advert for their new unlocking dongle thing.
I don't think it was a good samaritan advertising for them and the ad even had McAffee in it. I think that is also why he already knew about it.
Sadly I can't for the life of me remember the name of the account but it was some kind of electronic unlocking/authentication device.
It's good enough for his new company but not for him personally it would seem.