Posted on 01/06/2017 8:59:54 AM PST by xzins
John McAfee Talks About ‘Russian Hack’
One of the most brilliant cyber-security experts has come forward to give his thoughts on the supposed Russian hack of the U.S. election.
I will be on @RT_America today at 8pm ET. I’ll drop a bombshell on today’s US intelligence claims. @realDonaldTrump I hope you’re listening.
— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) January 5, 2017
From RT:
The sloppiness of the alleged DNC hack by itself proves it was not organized by a nation state, and the “utter nonsense” presented as proof of Moscow’s involvement is rather evidence of intelligence agencies being “ignorant and naïve,” John McAfee told RT.
The so-called evidence of the Russian involvement in the hacks not only looks like “the most deceptive propaganda was perpetrated on the American public” but actually proves quite the opposite, McAfee believes…
Thus, McAfee believes, the whole “Russian hacking” narrative is either “propaganda intended to incite the American people, to anger toward Russia for some reason, or our intelligence community is so ignorant and naïve that they should all be replaced.”
Cybersecurity specialist believes that based on the presented evidence the hack “cannot possibly be an organized nation-state.”
***“The hack on the DNC used a piece of malware a year and a half old and there have been many updates since then, McAfee said. “This was done by an independent one person kid that downloaded the software. Please, this is not an organized hack and certainly not a nation-state that did this.”***
I don’t trust the intel agencies because of Benghazi, WMDs in Iraq, and other issues.
That leaves it to me to weigh what I read on the net, hear in the media, etc.
So far as McAfee is concerned, even IF the guy is nutso, he’s STILL a cyber-security expert/legend.
McAfee may be crazy, but if its true that the malware program used was a year and a half old and has been updated many times since then, it is evidence that the phishing of Podesta’s emails was not done by a state actor.
What involvement did Russia have in the election of the most Marxist President the US has ever had, who offered Russia "more flexibility" in his second term, who had his incompetent Secretary of State "hit the reset button" for better relations with Russia, and has acted like a pussy regarding Russian geo-political and military misadventures?
Did Russia arrange for the National Security sieve, known as "Hillary's Home Brew Server", to intentionally leak State secrets to WikiLeaks and other hackers?
Does Clapper have hard evidence that WikiLeaks derived data (which thus far is roundly indisputable) from the DNC server or Hillary's Home Brew Server directly from Russian state actors?
Does Russia support a strengthening of US military power, as promised by the PEOTUS, which somehow benefits Russia?
How does Mr. Clapper define "fake news"? Did Hillary's declaration of "landing under sniper fire", or "a video caused the Benghazi attack", Donna Brazile's smuggling of debate questions to Hillary, or the release of Podesta's racially-charged emails, constitute Russian-driven fake news?
Can Mr. Clapper conceive of a "leak" from DNC insiders at all?
If the FBI was denied access to the DNC servers to investigate for evidence of Russian hacking, what physical evidence of the hacking is present that is so egregious that at least one addle-brained, atherosclerotic, senior Senator emphatically claim the "Russian hack" was an Act of War?
While we are investigating undue influence on elections (whether it is hacking, leaking, or propaganda) who is looking into US dollars funding the plans to influence Israeli elections, and the efforts to blunt the BREXIT elections in the UK, and threats to "put Britain in the back of the queue" for trade?
SOMEONE here on FR posted something very close to the above statement by John McAfee. I wonder who that was????
This guy is a nut but he knows his cybersecurity.
I’ve been into cybersecurity since 2000 and I’d say Guliani is the most informed on security and cyber of anyone on mainstream media however...
Yeah. Then there was that weird video he made on how to uninstall McAfee AV, that showed him doing drugs with hookers and waving firearms around? Dude needs serious help...
Pretending Podesta’s e-mail are “The American Election System” is nonsense.
Yes. I agree.
To the point, a piece of email based malware.
Any aspiring teenage hacker can accomplish this.[1]
The current American intelligence agencies have a clear motive to try and discrete Trump who has publicly stated he wants to drain the swamp...which includes their bureaucracy's.
The usurping Barry administration and most of the media have a proven track record of disinformation and outright lying to the American people to cover their sorry fraudulent azz's.
I don't put my trust in them.
Fire Clapper day 1
Dude is evil.
Does the CIA understand THEY’LL BE WORKING FOR TRUMP... HE DOESN’T WORK FOR THEM?
I do not think they understand that.
AND, they do not even know if the evidence they analyzed is good.
It was not collected by any government agency.
No, I just think that this guy has no credibility and it is embarrassing to see people hanging on him for advice and recommendation. His company dumped him, he admitted killing the guy in Belize, he is a drugged out looney. Why trot him out to say Russians were or were not involved. Seems like there are lots of other sources, more credible. If not, is this really all we’ve got to back up the claim that the Russians were not involved?
They killed his dogs.
Next day they killed his neighbor who filed a complaint about the dogs weeks earlier.
He escaped Belize, as they burned his house down.
Sounds like a Clint Eastwood quotenfrom Unforgiven.
His escape was like a Survivor episode it seems like.
Did he admit it? I didn’t read that anywhere.
“My only question is whether he understands cybersecurity.”
doesn’t mean he knows jack squat about whether “Russians hacked the election” or hacked anything in particular for that matter or why if so.
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