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Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old.
It's very hard to keep an uncrackable encryption if you share it with the government.
As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings.
I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.
Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.
My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.
America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.
There will be an electronic currency, and it will be universal, and we must accept that fact.
Do you think the Chinese think twice about hiring a hacker with a mohawk or a tattooed face? No.
Bitcoin, generally, is a great idea. Keeping wallets on smartphones is the worst idea of the decade
I have dual citizenship; I would be happy to go to England. I would be very happy to go to America.
I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.
The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands.
I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.
Libertarian principles are very simple, but you can't violate any of them and still call yourself Libertarian.
I know many people within Anonymous; I was the keynote speaker at Defcon in Las Vegas and got a standing ovation.
I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story.
Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.
Everyone knows that a federal job is a lifetime job, and for many in Congress, it seems they have a lifetime job, too.
People are afraid of their own lives. Shouldn't your goal be to have a meaningful life? Unknown, mysterious, thrilling?
I had disagreements with all my neighbors about my dogs. I had a disagreement with myself about my dogs. They were noisy.
A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.
I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target.
My well-discussed 'paranoia' urges me to believe that some tiny segment of the NSA's parsing algorithm is finely tuned to my voice.
Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.
Corporate competition is fierce, viewed by many as economic warfare where all is fair. But politics... now, this is something unique.
Corporations understand the value of security because the leakage of their competitive information could be the end of the corporation.
The FBI and our entire government has become a bureaucracy. Sick, tired, and old as far as technology is concerned. This has to change.
A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.
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.
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.
When individuals become angry with one another, an injury of some sort will likely occur. When governments become angry, entire civilisations are wiped out.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Really, what the government is asking Apple to do is to make every individual who uses an iPhone susceptible to hacking by bad people, foreign governments, and anyone who wants.
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.
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.
Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics.
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.
I think that the world has largely ignored Belize and the political situation and the plight of its people because it's one of the smallest countries and, in terms of the world economy, one of the least significant.
I'm the founder of the McAfee Anti-Virus Software Company. Although I have had nothing to do with this company for over 15 years, I still get volumes of mail asking 'how do I uninstall this software'. I have no idea.
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.
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.
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.