John McAfee

The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.

An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.

A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'

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 trust and use RakEM for my private messages and calls. Other messengers collected metadata about who I messaged, when and where - RakEM does not collect metadata, encrypts local files, and uses the strongest end-to-end encryption around.

Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn't matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You'd jump in to save him.

Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.

Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old.

Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.

You cannot become what you already are.