McAfee vows to make Internet 'impossible to hack'
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"My new technology is going to provide a new type of Internet, a decentralized, floating and moving Internet that is impossible to hack, impossible to penetrate and vastly superior in terms of its facility and neutrality. It solves all of our security concerns," McAfee said in an interview with the San Jose Mercury News.
From the sketchy description it might be some new protocol on top of TCP/IP.
One must be wary of such ideas, because the idea of "security" might be control by a central authority and forced authentication - but such schemes are antithetical to "security" from the viewpoint of users. If on the other hand it were really secure from the users' point of view, governments and corporations would never tolerate it and would just set about hacking the endpoints anyway.
And he seems pretty anti-authoritarian...
Have you seen this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg (NSFW video by McAfee)
You could probably get most of those things by chucking a disconnected unpowered switch or two in the ocean attached to floats but you wouldn't be able to send much data across it.
(You didn't RTFA (obviously) or you'd know that "McAfee" is referring to John McAfee -- not McAfee, Inc., owned by Intel -- but don't let that stop you from making a disparaging remark.)
That said, an "unhackable" internet isn't exactly possible since you'd probably have to use the existing internet to get to this "other" internet. I could also see this turning into another AlterNic debacle, so who knows.
His being 'crazy' doesn't necessarily make him a genius and neither makes what he wants to accomplish possible.
This is going to be entertaining...
I recall hearing that and thinking "how convenient" at the time. It did not see unreasonable to me that it would be very easy for the local government to claim that he did it, convict him, and lock him up for life, while also take over his property and assets in the process. As you said:
> ... you have to wonder where that money went and what kind of incentives it created.
Like most people (apparently) I do think that McAfee is "a few fries short of a Happy Meal" but "his side" did seem quite plausible.
The part I found interesting is "How are they (Belizean authorities) going to whack me if every newspaper in the world is looking?" That gave me the feeling that this might be another one of his blog posts.