John McAfee
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.Collection: Jealousy
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.Collection: Technology
Belize is so raw and so clear and so in-your-face. There's an opportunity to see something about human nature that you can't really see in a politer society, because the purpose of society is to mask ourselves from each other.Collection: Society
Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'Collection: Anger
An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.Collection: Anger
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.Collection: Change
The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.Collection: Business
Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.Collection: Communication
Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Beauty
The most astonishing subset of the Deep Web is a collection of dark alleys called the Dark Web. The Dark Web is generally thought of as a collection of criminal elements intent on subverting the law, stealing our money, and possibly kidnapping our daughters.Collection: Money
Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old.Collection: Morning
Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet.
Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.
I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive.
Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.
Hillary Clinton was asked if she wiped the disc she was using for her email; she said, 'Do you mean with a damp cloth?' This, to me, is frightening.
A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.
America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.
Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.
I've been called 'paranoid,' 'schizophrenic,' 'the wild child of Silicon Valley.'
As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings.
Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.
Donald Trump is proud of the fact that he's never written an e-mail.
The government generally is just too top-heavy.
There are no secrets.
Steve Jobs was a friend and mentor whom I miss more than I can say.
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.
We are losing privacy at an alarming rate - we have none left.
My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.
Do you think the Chinese think twice about hiring a hacker with a mohawk or a tattooed face? No.
Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.
Belize is still a pirate haven and is run more or less along the lines established centuries ago by the likes of Captain Morgan, Blackbeard, and Captain Barrow.
We live in a very insecure world with a very insecure communications platform.
It's very hard to keep an uncrackable encryption if you share it with the government.
Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest.
Libertarian principles are very simple, but you can't violate any of them and still call yourself Libertarian.
People are afraid of their own lives. Shouldn't your goal be to have a meaningful life? Unknown, mysterious, thrilling?
I have dual citizenship; I would be happy to go to England. I would be very happy to go to America.
I am not in any way a conspiracy theorist and have no time for such nonsense.
I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story.
In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approximates a 'whisper' is encryption. When I cannot whisper in my wife's ear or the ears of my business partners, and have to communicate electronically, then encryption is our tool to keep our secrets secret.
I had more money than I could spend in million lifetimes.
I simply refuse to play by the rules.
Dwight Eisenhower warned American citizens at the end of his presidency about the implications of the military-industrial complex and its influence over government. We have now gone well beyond any of the wildest imaginations that could have entered Eisenhower's mind.
I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.
Living with one woman is horrific.
I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.
Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.
If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.