A biography for John McAfeehasn’t been written yet.
“Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.”
“I don't need friends.”
“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.”
“My relationship has never been good with the government.”
“I cannot conceive of how more than 1% of us could possibly survive a cyberwar.”
“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 gravitate to the world's outcasts.”
“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.”
“As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings.”
“My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.”
“The FBI and our entire government has become a bureaucracy. Sick, tired, and old as far as technology is concerned. This has to change.”
“Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old.”
“I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.”
“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.”
“Everyone knows that a federal job is a lifetime job, and for many in Congress, it seems they have a lifetime job, too.”
“My most heartfelt thank you goes to Impact Future Media and Cartoon Monkey Studio. Their dedication to the truth is very uncommon in the world we live in today. I am now, and will always be, grateful to their organizations.”
“I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.”
“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.”
“It's very hard to keep an uncrackable encryption if you share it with the government.”
“I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.”