John McAfee Quotes

Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet.

We are all victims of data mining…. We are in a data mining culture…. Americans do not place a high value on the privacy of their communications and will give up that right for modest benefit.

It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

Technology really helps our daily lives, but things like location services are actually quite creepy.

Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance, if you browse the Web and you see a 'like' button in some page or some other site that has been displayed from Facebook. Therefore, Facebook knows that your machine visited that page.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

The natural flow of technology tends to move in the direction of making surveillance easier, and the ability of computers to track us doubles every eighteen months.

The evidence does not support the proposition that there is a significant measure of safety that is added as a result of collecting all these records on law abiding Americans.

It's sad that people will invade someone's privacy - and this is not only regarding someone's private photos - but this goes deep into people's financial privacy, their passwords, their emails, their text messages.

Big Brother is home. He is installed in the item you just dragged home from the Apple store.

If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up.

There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't.

Vast databases of names and personal information, sold to thieves by large publicly traded companies, have put almost anyone within reach of fraudulent telemarketers.

Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of information that seems so innocent, so everyday and unimportant, that most people in the organization don't see any reason why the item should be protected and restricted.

Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.

I do mind some of the intrusions on privacy.

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.

There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance.

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publicly and willingly; it's about collecting the information you don't think you're sharing at all, such as the online searches you do on search engines... or private emails or text messages... or the location of your mobile phone at any time.

Supercookies are legal, but I don't think they should be.