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Source: San Jose Mercury News
John McAfee lived up to his reputation Saturday as tech's most popular wild child, electrifying an audience with new details of his plan to thwart the NSA's surveillance of ordinary Americans with an inexpensive, pocket-size gadget.
Dubbed "Decentral," the as-yet-unbuilt device will cost less than $100, McAfee promised the enthusiastic crowd of about 300 engineers, musicians and artists at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.
"There will be no way (for the government) to tell who you are or where you are," he said in an onstage interview with moderator Dan Holden at the inaugural C2SV Technology Conference + Music Festival.
And if the U.S. government bans its sale, "I'll sell it in England, Japan, the Third World. This is coming and cannot be stopped."
Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_24198989/john-mcafee-reveals-details-gadget-thwart-nsa
defacto7
(13,485 posts)but till we can protect ourselves from NSA eavesdropping, I have just added the following signature to all my outgoing email:
Hello NSA! How's business? 'The wife and kids doing well?
Hope aunt Kate is feeling better. You have a nice day now!
Just letting them know that we know they're there. And they are there. I run a couple of email servers and the logs don't lie to me.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)joshcryer
(62,276 posts)So, how are the police going to get to where the crime is being alerted without ... knowing a location?
Seems trivially circumvented.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)I really don't have anything to hide other than my political opinions maybe. (Maybe not. They aren't that interesting.)
But I just think it is wrong for the government to collect information about the citizens. We are supposed to have a government that is of and by and for the people. It's not supposed to be the government over the people but the people over and in charge of the government. The power is supposed to be on the side of the people. The police powers are exercised in support of, on behalf of and to protect the people.
This surveillance thing -- well just look at the word -- "sur" means over "veillance" means to be watching. This watching over - surveillance - business is utterly out of keeping with what our nation was set up to be.
We need to have the people keeping watch over the government, not the government keeping watch over the people. The government can specifically watch criminals and terrorists, but not ordinary people going about their ordinary business. That is a perversion of the Constitution.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Look at how Tor was hacked with malware.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)the advent of the cell phone. We managed without it.
That is the question that citizens must ask themselves. How much insecurity is my privacy worth? To me my privacy is worth a lot.
I grew up without cell phones, internet, etc. I don't need to make myself watchable at all times.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)Well, I do hope he's found something that works for him.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)?!
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]
trumad
(41,692 posts)Ok John---whatever you say.