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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  4057 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: John McAfee reveals details on gadget to thwart NSA - San Jose Mercury News

    "Marijuana is a drug of illusion -- it creates the illusion that you're doing great things when all you're doing is sitting on the sofa growing a beard."

Epic quote.

The one problem I see with this (presuming it works) is that if the "college kids" don't "line up to buy one", deploying such a gadget will be the equivalent of firing a flare on a stormy sea. Just like encryption, nothing advertises "I have something you should look at" quite so much as saying "don't look at me."





humanodon  ·  4056 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, that's true. I mean, he outright admitted that it would be used for nefarious purposes. I am curious to see how these things will operate in the wild. It says it'll have a range of 3 blocks in cities, so maybe he's envisioning some kind of piecemeal cloak that will hide more people than those that bought it?

I'm also curious about this:

    Commuters will also find it useful, he said. Neighborhoods will be better able to fight crime because Decentral will include an option that sends an alert if there is a burglary or other crime.

So, it's a privacy device that also monitors?