By Dan Nakaso – San Jose Mercury News
SAN JOSE — Anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee, who buried himself in the sand to hide from police in Belize, faked a heart attack in a Guatemalan detention center and admits playing the “crazy card,” says he’s now ready for his next adventure: a return to Silicon Valley.
At age 67, McAfee is promising to launch a new cybersecurity company that will make the Internet safer for everyone.
“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 this newspaper.
October 23, 2013 at 3:57 am
Just seen John McAfee on INFOWARS and talking BAD ASS.This dude could whip Daryl & Merles ass while mouth raping a Walker!!! This what all Americans should aspire to be like. Trying snorting some Roxicodones Mac they’re way better than bath salts and will leave you feeling like Tony Stark with Extremis Armor
October 5, 2013 at 6:51 am
Guessing this will not make it past the FCC, good idea though. McAfee vs the Government. Never doubt the Irish/English will, but even John’s coffers are not that big. And yes John, I still consider you a friend…
Cheers,
Brian
October 4, 2013 at 6:32 pm
You should partner with me. We can fight stupidity together. And yes, I love to party.
September 30, 2013 at 10:15 am
John, please make this epic (as FUCK) for all of us.
Thank you,
Signed- Humanity.
September 30, 2013 at 5:51 am
If this device is really going to be considered secure, then it is going to have to be open software and hardware. That is the only way to allow security researchers around the world confirm its security on a nondiscriminatory basis. If this is the case, then the Data Roads Foundation is interested in maintaining compatible standards with this Decental project. If it is not sufficiently open, then there will be no way to fully detect the presence of NSA or other government secret forced backdoors.
September 28, 2013 at 8:43 pm
Hey,
Is there any way you guys could stop talking Greek? I failed miserably in school, and don’t have a clue what you’re saying………….. Aside from Sandwillow, whose comment I am echoing, the only comment I ‘get’ is the smart-ass one.
LOL ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Knock ‘em out, JM.
September 28, 2013 at 8:05 pm
Hahahahhah!
John, I like your idea a lot. I also produce hand-carved wooden veneered discombubulating encryption abacuses, which being analog obviously are impervious to NSA infiltration. Let me know if we can work together. We could issue ivory paneled ones for premium users, thus also solving the elephant sustainability programme of the Kruger national park!
September 27, 2013 at 7:01 am
Hello,
While it certainly sounds promising, one thing I have learned over the past few decades is not to commit to any absolutes when it comes information security, especially when personal computers are involved.
As for the analysts who are poohpooh-ing Mr. McAfee’s “lack of recent experience” since his anti-virus days, it’s important to remember after he got out of that business, that (1) he created PowWow in the 1990s, one of the first instant messaging programs that relied on mixture of peer-to-peer and client-to-server connections for communications, and at its height had about 15M users (not bad considering people were still on dial-up connections at that point); (2) after Tribal Voice, Mr. McAfee was an early investor in Zone Labs, whose ZoneAlarm product was the first commercially successful firewall for Windows desktops; and (3), lastly and perhaps most importantly, despite his technical expertise in antiviral, instant messaging and firewall technologies, Mr. McAfee has always been a savvy businessman, and even if he’s not writing this new technology line-by-line himself, he likely has a damn good understanding of the underlying technologies, has assembled a crack team, and like his other endeavors, is operating a no-B.S. shop. Perhaps the latter, more than anything else, will contribute most ultimately to the success of his new offering. Speaking of which…
I am guessing that McAfee’s new offering will be a VPN-like service which functions something like an anonymizing proxy, but with peer-to-peer host connectivity. Another way to think of it might be like Tor, but easier to use and simpler to set up, and everyone acts as an exit node.
Of course, that’s just a guess on my part, and I am likely very wrong, but in any case it will be very interesting to see what sort of service Mr. McAfee comes up with.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
September 27, 2013 at 5:50 pm
“guessing that McAfee’s new offering will be a VPN-like service which functions something like an anonymizing proxy, but with peer-to-peer host connectivity. Another way to think of it might be like Tor, but easier to use and simpler to set up, and everyone acts as an exit node.”
Have no idea what you’re talking about but guess you know your stuff. Just hope this new security program knows when it’s OK to update and when it’s not.
September 28, 2013 at 1:59 am
Haha And I completely understand everything he said. Guess that makes me a geek?
I think that may be a good guess though. Going beyond where Tor has brought us to.
September 28, 2013 at 4:44 am
Hello,
Well, that’s just one possibility, SL. Another might be some kind of web-based OS like CorneliOS or Jolicloud (think a simple desktop environment that runs in your browser) backed up with something like Mega.CO.NZ for storage.
The only really thing you can be sure of is that when John McAfee’s involved, it’s going to be something interesting.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
September 28, 2013 at 8:58 pm
Nicely put, Aryeh.
I also agree with your assessment of his ‘savvy’. All the most wonderful inventions would sit on the shelf, unsold or unused, if not for the unique ability, possessed only by a select few, to sell it to the world. JM is one of the few.
If I had even a clue about the technical stuff you said, I’d be able to agree, or disagree….BUT, it sounds impressive. LOL
September 27, 2013 at 12:05 am
Looking forward to the details. I wish they were web casting the event for those of us who have to work. Have fun at the conference!