Interview: Ask John McAfee What You Will 194
John McAfee was best known as a software designer and founder of the computer anti-virus company McAfee Associates until his saga in Belize began. McAfee's works on producing natural antibiotics commercially in Belize was quickly overshadowed by police raids, murder allegations, and a month of evading Belizean authorities while maintaining his innocence. He was eventually captured and deported back to the United States in December 2012 without being charged with any crime. "Boston George" Jung (a man who has lived quite an unusual life himself) has been tapped to write McAfee's biography titled, No Domain. Now that things have mostly settled down, John has agreed to answer your questions. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one per post.
A/V part of the problem? (Score:1, Insightful)
There are a lot of other ways to protect a system from malware than signature scanning. In fact, I would go as far as to say this technology is outmodded. With the considerable resources available to your company, why aren't you guys developing whitelists to validate executable code on a workstation and building a trusted computing platform so only executable code which has been verified can be executed?
Vendors such as Microsoft, Adobe, etc., do release many versions of their software, but these versions can all be verified, byte by byte, on the day of release. Malware, of course, has to be found first, and then a signature developed. As your target market is primarily corporate users, for which software doesn't get updated as often and is already audited and catalogued, why does your company continue to avoid embracing such technology?
Um, no (Score:5, Insightful)
I am not interested the least in what John McAfee has to say about anything, nor reading what will ultimately be spun into a John McAfee publicity puff piece by the Dice Masters.
Re:What would you do differently? (Score:0, Insightful)
Probably more bath salts up the ass.
Re:Computer Security (Score:2, Insightful)
Will you shut up please before that annoying bastard shows up again?