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McAfee vows to make Internet 'impossible to hack'
- brubaker 13y agoHe also asked: "Does anyone else see those dragons?"
- FLUX-YOU 13y agoSomeone get this guy a One-time padded cell
- bifrost 13y agoAs much as I think McAfee is nuts, he's also a pretty smart guy if you look at what he's done in the past, so I wouldn't reall underestimate him. That said, an "unhackable" internet isn't exactly possible since you'd probably have to use the existing internet to get to this "other" internet. I could also see this turning into another AlterNic debacle, so who knows.
- jacquesm 13y agoMcAfee used to be a pretty smart guy. Asylums the world over are full of people that used to be really smart.
- bichiliad 13y agoI hate to focus on the least relevant parts of the article, but when it says he "buried himself in the sand to hide from police," is that metaphorically or literally speaking?
- phaus 13y agoWhether its true or not, he probably meant it literally. He claims to have remained on his own property for the majority of the time that the police were searching it.
- pault 13y agoLiterally. Source: I live a few miles from his old compound.
- anjc 13y agoAny gossip on all the scandal? Was he known in the area as violent or aggressive?
- pault 13y agoShort answer: it's a mystery; long answer: it's a small island and the gossip is wild and unreliable, but he was definitely involved in some shady stuff. That having been said, contract killings and disappearances are not unheard of here (just not usually this high-profile). Only a few people really know what happened and aren't talking, but I wouldn't be surprised if either story turned out to be true (he was set up / it was him). I do know that his assets were seized and quickly auctioned off, so you have to wonder where that money went and what kind of incentives it created. It's a very small country with a very limited government, which while generally safer and less corrupt than other central american nations, creates an environment where wealthy and well-connected people can sweep a lot of questionable activity under the rug. He certainly had a lot of enemies, and enough wealth to be coveted, but he was also pretty unstable and by all accounts a bit detached from reality. None of the scenarios floated are as outlandish as they might seem to outsiders.
- crunchcaptain 13y agoTalk is cheap. This guy is a clown. "My new technology is going to provide a new type of Internet, a decentralized, floating and moving Internet that is impossible to hack, impossible to penetrate and vastly superior in terms of its facility and neutrality. It solves all of our security concerns," McAfee said in an interview with the San Jose Mercury News.
- ds9 13y agoHe seems a little crazy, actually. From the sketchy description it might be some new protocol on top of TCP/IP. One must be wary of such ideas, because the idea of "security" might be control by a central authority and forced authentication - but such schemes are antithetical to "security" from the viewpoint of users. If on the other hand it were really secure from the users' point of view, governments and corporations would never tolerate it and would just set about hacking the endpoints anyway.
- tlrobinson 13y agoHe did mention "decentralized", which is (possibly) a good sign. And he seems pretty anti-authoritarian...
- greyfade 13y ago> He seems a little crazy, actually. Have you seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg (NSFW video by McAfee)
- jlgaddis 13y agoWow. I would hang out with that guy.
- josephlord 13y ago> a decentralized, floating and moving Internet that is impossible to hack, impossible to penetrate and vastly superior in terms of its facility and neutrality You could probably get most of those things by chucking a disconnected unpowered switch or two in the ocean attached to floats but you wouldn't be able to send much data across it.
- ajarmst 13y agoThat's nice. I haven't had a chance to use the word "hubris" in a while.
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- orblivion 13y agoWell, as long as it's open source, it doesn't matter how unhinged the author is, right?
- electic 13y agoThey haven't made my computer impossible to hack in 20 years, so going to just call it and say they will likely fail here as well.
- jlgaddis 13y agoKinda makes sense, since he sold the company 19 years ago. (You didn't RTFA (obviously) or you'd know that "McAfee" is referring to John McAfee -- not McAfee, Inc., owned by Intel -- but don't let that stop you from making a disparaging remark.)
- winslow 13y agoWow, I had no idea that McAfee was a party animal or lived the life he did. The part I found interesting is "How are they (Belizean authorities) going to whack me if every newspaper in the world is looking?" That gave me the feeling that this might be another one of his blog posts.
- Millennium 13y agoTo think that a person counted on for security by so many people would know so little about his field as to ever make a promise like this. Frightening stuff.
- neeee 13y agoMcAfee hasn't had anything to do with McAfee Inc. for more than 10 years.
- MarkTanamil 13y agoThis guy is the mad scientist of the tech world.
- tlrobinson 13y agoFrom the guy who produced this (NSFW) video, "How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg (NSFW) This is going to be entertaining...
- jlgaddis 13y agoWow. I would hang out with that guy.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 13y agoWhat a relief. Can I invest in his company? Does he take bitcoins?
- smosher 13y agoOh, John McAffee, not the company.
- teilo 13y agoSit back and grab some popcorn. This should be fun.
- yeukhon 13y agoSure impossible to hack. What can I steal from him?
- webmaven 13y agoCue the quote from Rob Enderle. That guy pops up everywhere, he's the hallmark of lazy tech and business journalists on a deadline.