What better way to start the weekend than with bat-shit, jungle crazy, John McAfee? Admittedly, he made a great sermon in this interview, highlighting the hypocrisy of the Federal government, in that he’s offered to hack this one phone for free but hasn’t been taken up on the offer.
Reason being: McAfee says the government wants a dark overlord, Lord of the Rings, type shit to monitor everything through a backdoor into your iPhone. He says if such a weapon were created, it would be a black day for American and ultimately mark the beginning of the end of the United States as a world power.
He furthers, we are 20 years behind other countries in the ongoing cyber-war and that the FBI is old and slow, hampered by bureaucracy.
He said he could unlock this one phone and it would take just 3 weeks and that any hacker worth his salt could do the same.
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If it were so easy, it would have been done already. Fact is.. it’s not. He’s nuts. He personally would do it anyway. He’d just to what rich crazy people do.. talk how “they” could do it and then hire somebody else to do it.
FBI is outdated and hampered by things called laws, due process and regulation.
If it were the KGB, Tim Cook would not be CEO anymore, probably be forced to create a backdoor and then him and his family tossed in a sewer beneath a prison in Columbia.
1st thing I do when I see McAfree on my parents computers? REMOVE.
MD – hilarious fucking post…
Here is an article at the web site of a former CIA officer who says that the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress produces much more useful info “than the much larger and grotesquely expensive US secret intelligence world.” He’s quite the critic of the U.S. intelligence network. He considers it both inefficient and corrupt.
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2016/02/crs-the-european-union/#more-117142
His various writings do seem to confirm McAffee’s view. And a tech person like McAffee ought to know what kinds of people in what countries could hack our phones, if they had a back door.
The overall web site I mentioned above is composed of a mixture of fascinating factual articles plus articles describing bizarre conspiracy theories though. So you have to sift through some garbage to get to the interesting stuff.
Everybody likes to feel safe. But if you want to know how to be safe in respect to the information on your electronic devices, you don’t ask the FBI– who couldn’t even break into an iphone– how to do it. You ask an Internet security expert like Mcaffee. This is not just some random tech guy. This is the guy who developed the very first commercial anti-virus program for computers. The guy may be unusual in his personality such that some call him crazy. But he is undoubtedly an renowned expert in his field.
“a renowned expert in his field.” I meant to type.
Here is an article in Vox about various issues regarding the FBI vs. AAPL issues.
http://www.vox.com/2016/2/17/11037748/fbi-apple-san-bernardino
I agree that “if it were the KGB, Tim Cook would not be CEO anymore, probably be forced to create a backdoor and then him and his family tossed in a sewer beneath a prison in Columbia.”
But that doesn’t mean that if he does create a back door, that it won’t expose all the info on our iphones, ipads etc. and make them super vulnerable to being hacked into, by hackers in Russia, China, and everywhere else in the world.
My point here is that none of us here have the expertise to credibly disagree with McAfee. If McAfee is wrong, then it could only be an equally knowledgeable Internet security expert who could present a credible case that he’s wrong and could document the reasons why he’s wrong .
Nobody credible is disagreeing Apple or someone else can’t get into this phone. That’s not the issue.
I agree about the government. Live in Washington and see it for yourself.
The mentality expands to much of life in the area.
Rhetorical comment- Why would anyone keep any critical information on a smartphone?
It’s like the guy who stages an accident of his wife falling off a cliff during a mountain hike. Everything is fine (except that she died), then a map is discovered in his possession with the spot of her plunge circled.