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John McAfee's new startup Everykey

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Antivirus founder John McAfee is at CES and Engadget had a bit of a chat with him to see what he's up to. He's currently doing a security startup called Everykey. Everykey is a small dongle that can security about every devices that you own, not only it can work on computers, but also others things too, like your house, car, etc and it does so with AES 128bit encryption. Everykey unlocks the devices via wireless. When the key and the device are close to each other, it will unlock and when you walk away, then the devices locks again. There is a flaw with Everykey as he admits, because if someone steals it, then that person can basically unlock everything that you have setup with that dongle. For now they're still trying to find a way to solve that issue.

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McAfee also announced yesterday that he's shifting his presidential run over to the Libertarian party. "We're facing a cyberwar," he said. "Our power grid in America is 50 years old, it's aging. The technology, the computers that are running and rationing electricity across the country are completely open and vulnerable to a 13-year-old who wants to hack from anywhere in the world. Technology I think is the biggest problem in the American government. We lag decades behind the Chinese and Russians in weaponized software."

"We have to have weaponized software," he said. "We have to have the capability to say, 'Look, if you press a button, we'll press a button.'"

 

https://www.engadget.com/2016/01/10/john-mcafeee-everykey/

 

 

 

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4 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

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Antivirus founder John McAfee is at CES and Engadget had a bit of a chat with him to see what he's up to. He's currently doing a security startup called Everykey. Everykey is a small dongle that can security about every devices that you own, not only it can work on computers, but also others things too, like your house, car, etc and it does so with AES 128bit encryption. Everykey unlocks the devices via wireless. When the key and the device are close to each other, it will unlock and when you walk away, then the devices locks again. There is a flaw with Everykey as he admits, because if someone steals it, then that person can basically unlock everything that you have setup with that dongle. For now they're still trying to find a way to solve that issue.

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https://www.engadget.com/2016/01/10/john-mcafeee-everykey/

I always wondered where the antivirus's name comes from. Now I know...

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The guys as mad as a box of frogs and twice as qwerky.

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9 minutes ago, Factory OC said:

Kaspersky?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Kaspersky

 

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