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John McAfee Tried to Trick Reporters Into Thinking He Hacked WhatsApp (gizmodo.com)
John McAfee, best known for creating McAfee security suite, apparently tried to trick journalists into believing that he is capable of breaking WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption and reading the private conversations. Gizmodo reports that McAfee tried to do so by sending journalists with compromised smartphones -- riddled with malicious tools such as keylogger. From the report: "[John McAfee was offering to a different couple of news organizations to mail them some phones, have people show up, and then demonstrate with those two phones that [McAfee] in a remote location would be able to read the message as it was sent across the phones," cybersecurity expert Dan Guido, who was contacted by a reporter trying to verify McAfee's claims said. "I advised the reporter to go out and buy their own phones, because even though they come in a box it's very easy to get some saran wrap and a hair dryer to rebox them."
It seems like he's trying to be a con-man, and doing a real bad job of it. I'm not sure if any of that is intentional, or it's just the voices in his head making him do asinine things.
I wanna see a cartoon or perhaps live action series where John McAfee and Steve Ballmer team up together for zany adentures. these guys are like the bill and ted of modern technology.
Good people go to bed earlier.
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John McAfee is mildly insane, but he gives me more entertainment per word uttered than most of the other people you see in the media. So keep going John, I'm waiting to see what weird thing you pull next.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
John McAfee is doing everything he can to and and be relevant in today's society, apart from actually creating anything and doing something productive.
* He is a failed Libertarian candidate for President
* He failed to decrypt iPhones for the FBI although he said he can do it.
* He failed in decrypting whatsapp.
* The software he originally wrote is a failed idea. (Who ever thought A/V signatures were a good idea other than a mad man.)
It is too bad he could not move back to South America since he is now a known fraud and dog killer.
In other news, Al-Queda's calling for the execution of John McAfee to damage the U.S. economy and expose millions of computers to viruses.
> Who ever thought A/V signatures were a good idea other than a mad man.
They WERE a good idea. He did that in 1987. Intel was selling a lot of 286 processors. The same year IBM announced their first 386 computer, the PS/2, which came with half a MB of RAM and supported of to 4MB if you maxed out the upgrades.
A year earlier the first virus for PC compatibles had come out, called Brain. By 1987 there were several viruses, perhaps a dozen or more. Nothing that caused destruction over a network, though, that wouldn't happen until year-end.
If you're trying to identify a dozen or so programs, and you have maybe 2KB to spare, a simple lookup table of signatures seems like a pretty good way to do it.
You didn't even read the full summary... "to a different couple of news organizations..."
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
saran wrap?
Do people really seek a specific brand of plastic wrap?
The best brand of plastic wrap, of course, is Cling-On brand plastic wrap.
McAfee should suffer death by a million bee stings. He is an attention whore who deserves the worst the Universe has ever seen.