John McAfee

Businessman

1945-09-18

Books by John McAfee

Beyond The Siddhis
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The Secret of the Yamas
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Computer viruses, worms, data diddlers, killer programs, and other threats to your system
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Quotes by John McAfee

Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest.
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A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.
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I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.
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A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.
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There's not a single flashlight app that's not spying on you right now.
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Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.
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Steve Jobs was a friend and mentor whom I miss more than I can say.
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Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.
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I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.
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Do you think the Chinese think twice about hiring a hacker with a mohawk or a tattooed face? No.
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I think the thing that our government lacks - just about more than anything else - is technological competence. We have some of the greatest white-hat hackers in the world here in the U.S., but the government seems to be technologically illiterate.
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These 'free' applications ask for permission to read your emails, your text messages, listen to your phone calls, record video from your phone. Why else would someone spend millions developing an application which they then give away? Kind-hearted, maybe? Get real.
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I am just a thorn in everybody's side.
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People are afraid of their own lives. Shouldn't your goal be to have a meaningful life? Unknown, mysterious, thrilling?
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I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person, and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well.
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I was one of the first practitioners of social engineering as a hacking technique, and today it is my only tool of use, aside from a smartphone - in a purely white hat sort of way. But if you don't trust me, then ask any reasonably competent social engineer.
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Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn't matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You'd jump in to save him.
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My most heartfelt thank you goes to Impact Future Media and Cartoon Monkey Studio. Their dedication to the truth is very uncommon in the world we live in today. I am now, and will always be, grateful to their organizations.
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One who understands the relationships between the human heart and the human mind will always out-hack those who chase after an ever-changing technology.
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We are at war - undeclared and of such a subtle nature that few have noticed - but war nevertheless. It is a cyberwar on many fronts, in which it is difficult to identify who is friend and who is foe. I will predict now, as unintelligible as it may seem, that Anonymous will turn out to be more friend than foe.
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