John McAfee had warned that you have NO PRIVACY online

10 months ago
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John McAfee had warned that the privacy promised by encrypted apps like ProtonMail and Signal (Telegram) is a dangerous illusion, as governments can easily hack into smartphones and other devices.

These are the arguments John McAfee made:

1. Encryption was designed 35 years ago to prevent a man-in-the-middle attack. We don't need them.

2. Your f*cking smartphone is the surveillance device preferred by every government on the f*cking planet.

3. Do you know how easy it is to plant malware? Go on P*rnhub. If you’ve been on P*rnhub then someone is now listening to you. All you have to do is do a drive-by on a website and it sets the download unauthorized applications flag.

After the first click [then] you now have malware that is doing two things: watching your inputs before they are encrypted, and transmitting them, and reading the outputs after they are decrypted.”

He concluded: “Encryption is a worthless piece of shit old technology.”
https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1827868486913167805

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