A message from the late, great John McAfee

Encrypted email and messaging systems like Protonmail, Signal, etc provide privacy??

HahahahahahHa …..

Wake the fuck up people! pic.twitter.com/RNU5hZnAgu

— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) January 18, 2020

By NC ScoutPublished On: January 4, 2025Categories: Uncategorized2 Comments

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NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .

2 Comments

wizardly_tesla January 4, 2025 at 13:33

Soft-headed false-binary take. Just had a conversation yesterday with someone sending gun shit over SMS who’s defense for doing it was “They can see everything anyway.” Yet that same person will has deadbolts on all the doors of their house. And blinds on all of the windows. Consistency much? Nuance at all?

McAfee was not soft-headed though. He was there to steer people down the path toward terrible ineffective takes just like this one.
Ghostmann January 5, 2025 at 05:38

Everyone is glossing over the fact that he is specifically talking about cell phones. The exploits to grab your keystrokes and basically dameware into your phone (Cellbrite and Pegasus, etc) can render encrypted traffic a moot point. It’s basically being shoulder surfed.

There is tradecraft to mitigate a good part of this, but it’s too inconvienent for many. There is very much a gratification factor about using a mobile for everything, and I mean everything.

Who knows though, with Blackrock and Sequoia Capital (the firm that funds conservative politicians with Chinese money) now dumping billions into Twitter.. you have your social credit system coming here in earnest. Maybe that’ll shock people awake? Or maybe it’ll separate the wheat from the chaff. You already have influencers and podcasters refusing to speak out due to fear of their wallets being hurt.

A little off topic… 38 might be the lowest one can go as far as their Social Credit goes. That’s probably the floor, is everyone is a 38. I’m interested to see what it looks like in 6 months and who gets boosted and who isn’t. Oh, the irony of a dope smoking video game addict who hits up Ketamine determining whether you are a good person or not. Maybe your Social Credit will go up if you drop a deuce in the middle of the street in San Francisco!