Introduction :
The World's first antivirus software company McAfee was later bought by Intel which we all might have already heard of. In short,Intel is world largest manufacturer of semiconductors.
He life after retirement from his company in 2007 has seen many ups and downs.He was arrested for corruption and disobeying federal laws.He spent some years in Belize where he faced some jail time but he got out from there ,people say he faked a heart attack there which led to his early release.Even after his return to the United States he faced many hardships most of them were legal issues.
The US government has accused him of hacking the government databases.He found out Prime Ministers involvement in extra judicial murders.Minister of National Defense involved in international human and drug trafficking.
He was also arrested for these reasons.According to him the NSA is always watching him.He was offered many acres of land and many other benefits in return to paying the political party $2 million dollars for their election campaign which he refused to accept.He was later arrested at his house and his dog was shot dead in front of him.
John McAfee like fishing and he is also a scuba diver.
McAfee has been showing "other" aspects of his personality lately mostly by the way he dresses and even in the the TV commercial where he shows "how to uninstall McAfee Antivirus".
FTC:
John McAfee is also the owner of the FTC(Future Tense Central), a company that he made.This company offers services like Internet Privacy and secure files and data sharing on the web.This company has also released Android and IOS platform applications like Chadder android app.Demonsaw is another desktop software from FTC that performs security for you in data sharing.
The company has also invested in health related apps like fetal beats.
D-Vasive Pro is also a great application that is basically anti-spy app for your WiFi computer accessories like mike , camera.
Cracking the iPhone :
John McAfee has been concerned about the ever so popular Apple vs FBI case.Hes been diving into the hot debates on televisions ever since this case became a thing.If you dont know about FBI vs Apples legal stand of you can check this link we have covered it too.
He gave his own method out to public and to FBI about how they can crack the iphone. According to him cracking the phone needs two people involved ;
1) a hardware engineer and
2) a software engineer.
The Hardware Engineer :
The hardware engineer disassembles the phone and then he copies the instruction set ;
Instruction set is defined as the computer architecture related to programming which basically tells the models that the computer follows to perform core tasks like I/O interrupt handling, registers , memory addressing etc.And then a software converts all the instructions into readable code.
The Software Engineer :
The software engineer's job is to analyze that code to find the first keypad input of password.Once he finds out the first input.He then works to locate that input in the memory of the iphone(instruction set).
Quotes from John McAfee :
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| Photo Credits : NullSession |
John McAfee is basically a cyber security legend.John McAfee is an american hacker(computer programmer who's expertise are breaking through software security protocols to access sensitive information without having any access rights) who is also the founder of the company "McAfee Antivirus" John McAfee, is probably ,for some people, the most interesting man in the world.McAfee Antivirus has been around even before the internet and it is also among the oldest antivirus soft wares around.John McAfee made over $100 million from his company.
The World's first antivirus software company McAfee was later bought by Intel which we all might have already heard of. In short,Intel is world largest manufacturer of semiconductors.
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He life after retirement from his company in 2007 has seen many ups and downs.He was arrested for corruption and disobeying federal laws.He spent some years in Belize where he faced some jail time but he got out from there ,people say he faked a heart attack there which led to his early release.Even after his return to the United States he faced many hardships most of them were legal issues.
The US government has accused him of hacking the government databases.He found out Prime Ministers involvement in extra judicial murders.Minister of National Defense involved in international human and drug trafficking.
He was also arrested for these reasons.According to him the NSA is always watching him.He was offered many acres of land and many other benefits in return to paying the political party $2 million dollars for their election campaign which he refused to accept.He was later arrested at his house and his dog was shot dead in front of him.
John McAfee like fishing and he is also a scuba diver.
McAfee has been showing "other" aspects of his personality lately mostly by the way he dresses and even in the the TV commercial where he shows "how to uninstall McAfee Antivirus".
FTC:
John McAfee is also the owner of the FTC(Future Tense Central), a company that he made.This company offers services like Internet Privacy and secure files and data sharing on the web.This company has also released Android and IOS platform applications like Chadder android app.Demonsaw is another desktop software from FTC that performs security for you in data sharing.
The company has also invested in health related apps like fetal beats.
D-Vasive Pro is also a great application that is basically anti-spy app for your WiFi computer accessories like mike , camera.
Cracking the iPhone :
John McAfee has been concerned about the ever so popular Apple vs FBI case.Hes been diving into the hot debates on televisions ever since this case became a thing.If you dont know about FBI vs Apples legal stand of you can check this link we have covered it too.
He gave his own method out to public and to FBI about how they can crack the iphone. According to him cracking the phone needs two people involved ;
1) a hardware engineer and
2) a software engineer.
The Hardware Engineer :
The hardware engineer disassembles the phone and then he copies the instruction set ;
Instruction set is defined as the computer architecture related to programming which basically tells the models that the computer follows to perform core tasks like I/O interrupt handling, registers , memory addressing etc.And then a software converts all the instructions into readable code.
The Software Engineer :
The software engineer's job is to analyze that code to find the first keypad input of password.Once he finds out the first input.He then works to locate that input in the memory of the iphone(instruction set).
Quotes from John McAfee :
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| Photo Credits :By NullSession from Bettendorf, Iowa, United States (John McAfee @ Def Con) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons “I do not want to live in a society where everything is known. That creates chaos and conflict and arguments.” |