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.
— John McAfee
Security is a human problem.
Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.
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.
There are always losers when society evolves. In the free market, these losers are expected and encouraged to retrain and find new ways to survive and thrive.
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.
I have started many companies now worth more than $100 million. So I know a little about business.
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.'
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.
I have the best habits in the world, and I cannot keep my phone secure.
There will be an electronic currency, and it will be universal, and we must accept that fact.
There's not a single flashlight app that's not spying on you right now.
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.
America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.
I had disagreements with all my neighbors about my dogs. I had a disagreement with myself about my dogs. They were noisy.
I cannot conceive of how more than 1% of us could possibly survive a cyberwar.
We are losing privacy at an alarming rate - we have none left.
Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.
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.
Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest.
Every corporation worth its salt is throwing money at Deep Web research, not least Google. The company that unlocks the mysteries of the Deep Web will obtain power of an enormous magnitude.
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.
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.
My well-discussed 'paranoia' urges me to believe that some tiny segment of the NSA's parsing algorithm is finely tuned to my voice.
When a hacker gains access to any corporate data, the value of that data depends on which server, or sometimes a single person's computer, that the hacker gains access to.
A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.
Liability is being assessed against companies who inadvertently have shipped a virus to another company. Rather than risk the incredibly bad PR, these companies fork over.
I know many people within Anonymous; I was the keynote speaker at Defcon in Las Vegas and got a standing ovation.
The beauty of knowing yourself is nobody else has to.
I don't do things I can't win.
Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet.
I had more money than I could spend in million lifetimes.
An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.
I have a huge underground following on the web.
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.
A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.
I am not in any way a conspiracy theorist and have no time for such nonsense.
The Deep Web contains shockingly valuable information. Can you imagine how cancer research would blossom if every researcher had instant access to every research paper done by every single university and research lab in the world?
When we do not understand something, a common reaction is to fear it. In government, this is the usual, and encouraged, reaction. The reaction to the gig economy has been no different, and this growing fear has unfortunately turned into a legislative bloodbath.
Corporate competition is fierce, viewed by many as economic warfare where all is fair. But politics... now, this is something unique.
When individuals become angry with one another, an injury of some sort will likely occur. When governments become angry, entire civilisations are wiped out.
Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.
We don't even know our friends' phone numbers anymore.
Marketing is the obverse of programming.
In America, we have bible-reading applications: every single one of those applications asks permission to turn on your microphone, your camera; it wants permission to read your e-mails and the right to send e-mails wherever it chooses.
Every newspaper on earth has called me a liar.
Libertarian principles are very simple, but you can't violate any of them and still call yourself Libertarian.
There is dissatisfaction in all of us. Some of us take out that dissatisfaction by attempting to ruin whatever you are attempting to do. This is a fact of life.
I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.
The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands.
