So McAfee has created a new app to look at all your other apps on your smartphone to see what they are doing, or can do. Like turning on your camera and mic, send texts, read e-mails, etc.
Yeah, I know what you are going to say... "InfoWars"... LOL. Who cares, this is the first I have heard of it and I thought I would share.
Is this the same guy that was wanted for murder at one point?
Yes, that's correct. Also had his house raided in Belize on suspicions of drug manufacturing and weapons. He fled Belize and was arrested later for illegally entering Gautemala.
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Is this the same guy that was wanted for murder at one point?
He apparently killed his neighbour in a dispute about his dogs, or that was the charge at least as I understand it.
As to the OP, I have no idea what John McAfee's app has to do with the government spying on people, unless I am seriously misunderstanding what it does.
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Sorry Rathji, the gov't angle is that we already know they are gathering information from devices. This topic was to discuss the corporate side, and what apps are able to do, whether you know it or not.
If I am in a board meeting, how safe is it to talk about sensitive company information these days? Should everyone take out their cell phones and remove the batteries? That is drug dealer talk, yet....
Bottom line, what can your phone do unbeknownst to you.
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Now, back on topic, I liked McAfee anti-virus in its earlier days. Far better than Norton. Not sure what John's angle is on this product, but if he has developed and launched this at no cost to the masses the question is .... Why? Either it is truly altruistic or there is something else I am not seeing.
Your devices can certainly be compromised in a manner that you are indicating, but I don't see anything in the claims that he made in that interview that will do anything to stop the level of compromise that is possible through NSA's Advanced Network Technology (ANT) used by the Tailored Access Operations (TAO) program
Sure it will point out the things that you have allowed the app to do, in the course of its normal running, such as access to file systems, microphones, video camera etc, and that might be useful information to people, specifically iOS users who don't have the info laid out plainly to them when they install an app like Android users do.
I could be entirely out to lunch, but the level of detail he has given here about the product, which I can't find to be available anywhere at the present, doesn't seem to indicate that it can actually stop the things the NSA can actually do.
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Sure it will point out the things that you have allowed the app to do, in the course of its normal running, such as access to file systems, microphones, video camera etc, and that might be useful information to people, specifically iOS users who don't have the info laid out plainly to them when they install an app like Android users do.
I could be entirely out to lunch, but the level of detail he has given here about the product, which I can't find to be available anywhere at the present, doesn't seem to indicate that it can actually stop the things the NSA can actually do.
From a little further digging, this was intended for Android devices. And there may be a legal issue that has caused delay in launch.
For those that don't like McAfee products, he hasn't been involved in the company for a long time. Might not want to hold it against him personally!
The following is very, very NSFW, but funny if you haven't seen it yet.
App Ops has been available in android 4.3 for awhile, allows you to set up app access to camera, microphone, SD and sms etc. Disabled in 4.4 UT there are ways to get it back. CM is really pushing this and privacy in general on phones.
Cognizant, John McAfee's new free app
