John McAfee: FBI should let me hack iPhone
1,340 views · Published 19 February 2016 · 2:42 · Indexed 23 October 2026
Channel: Real Thing TV · 2016 · News & Politics
John McAfee: FBI should let me hack iPhone. Cybersecurity pioneer John McAfee wants authorities to stay away from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s encryption, so much that he has offered to personally crack the iPhone used by one of the shooters in last year's San Bernardino, California, attack. The McAfee antivirus software creator and outspoken libertarian fears that Apple's compliance could lead to a so-called backdoor for government access, leaving users more vulnerable to malicious hackers. He claims that handling it himself would leave consumers safer. "There has never been a backdoor that has not been hacked into by bad hackers or foreign nations. So really, what the government is asking Apple to do is to make every individual who uses an iPhone susceptible to hacking by bad people," McAfee argued on CNBC's "Power Lunch" on Friday. McAfee, a self-described "cybersecurity legend" and presidential hopeful, first offered to decrypt the iPhone in a Thursday opinion piece on Business Insider.
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