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John McAfee Offers To Decrypt San Bernardino iPhone For the FBI and Save America (hothardware.com)

Posted by yaelk on from the mcafee-makes-a-comeback dept.

MojoKid writes: Wondering what John McAfee is up to these days? It's not sniffing bath salts nor is he fleeing foreign countries as a person of interest in a murder investigation and faking heart attacks (been there, done all that) ; instead, he's on a mission to save America. How so? By cracking the code on the San Bernardino iPhone that's causing such a ruckus. McAfee didn't just criticize the FBI; instead he offered a potential solution. Let him and his team of hackers break into the iPhone without any help from Apple. "With all due respect to Tim Cook and Apple, I work with a team of the best hackers on the planet. These hackers attend Defcon in Las Vegas, and they are legends in their local hacking groups, such as HackMiami. They are all prodigies, with talents that defy normal human comprehension," McAfee said. Eccentric rant aside, McAfee's offer is simple - give him three weeks and he will, "free of charge, decrypt the information on the San Bernardino phone" with his team of hackers. He'll do it using mostly social engineering.

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  1. Impressive! by 110010001000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    They must be pretty good if they attend Defcon in Las Vegas!

    1. Re:Impressive! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      At least it isn't Deaf Con in Reno.

  2. "He'll do it using mostly social engineering." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The suspects are dead. Are they going to attempt a seance?

  3. Seems like a natural fit by scunc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who better to break into a system that's nearly impossible to get into than the man responsible for software that's nearly impossible to get rid of?
    --
    What happens when an unstoppable force meets an irremovable object?

  4. dammit John, FOCUS! by Thud457 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're supposed to be running for president!

    A Trump / McAfee ticket is the closest thing we can get to having President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in real life.

    --

    the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

  5. Re:What's he on, today? by aaron4801 · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's socially engineering the FBI. He'll just waste the 10 attempts, and get the phone wiped. Debate over.

  6. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  7. Re:Obligatory XKCD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'd have to use a "beating a dead horse" analogy here [...] no amount of whacking the corpse with a $5 wrench

    Well, there's your problem. If you really want results, you have to beat the correct horse with a battery staple.