John McAfee Wants To Shield You From NSA

Eccentric antivirus company founder pitches $100 gadget meant to help you evade all forms of electronic surveillance.

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Antivirus founder John McAfee wants to sell you a $100 box called D-Central designed to escape the National Security Agencys digital dragnet.
That pitch was made by McAfee -- Twitter tagline:
eccentric millionaire and still alive
-- Saturday during a fireside chat at Silicon Valleys C2SV Technology Conference. He said the devices could be used to create local, decentralized networks allowing laptops, tablets and smartphones to communicate and share files, backed by encryption to mask the network activity from any prying eyes.
There will be no way [for the government] to tell who you are or where you are, McAfee
said in his fireside chat
, reported
The Verge
.
McAfee, who in 1987 founded but is no longer involved with the antivirus product company bearing his name, stormed back into the public consciousness last year after becoming a
fugitive from justice
in Belize, botching an attempted
asylum bid
in Guatemala, being deported to Miami, and ultimately landing in Portland, Ore., where he now resides.
[ Is the National Security Agency listening to your calls? Read
NSA Vs. Your Smartphone: 5 Facts
. ]
Since then, McAfee said hes been advancing plans to bring his D-Central to market, especially in the wake of the non-stop revelations over widespread
NSA surveillance
.
According to McAfee, D-Central will sport a
unique encryption scheme
that the NSA wont get into, and be able to create a local Wi-Fi network with a range of about three blocks, which would further complicate efforts to monitor the networks. Dcentral is the Internet equivalent of the Klingon cloaking device from Star Trek, McAfee
tweeted
Monday.
McAfee himself decloaked earlier this year, at least in the pop culture sense, after he released a
guide to uninstalling McAfee antivirus software
, which proved popular with Internet viewers. (Spoiler alert: Some drugs and firearms might be required.)
Now, McAfee also plans to pitch D-Central not just for privacy and freedom purposes, but also squarely at pop culture consumers. Given the ease with which the gadgets could be used to enable file sharing, I cannot imagine any college student not standing in line to buy one of these, McAfee said.
When might D-Central be ready for public vetting? McAfee said hes shooting for a prototype in about six months, and a related
Future Tense website
set up to advertise the product promised Tuesday that more details would be released in 172 days. We have the design in place, were looking for partners for development of the hardware, McAfee said.
Still, as
noted by Mashable
, this isnt the first attempt to create a localized network that offers better security and privacy than your typical hotspot. For example, a $50
Kickstarter-funded
device known as
FreedomBox
will create a local
mesh network
. According to FreedomBox Foundation program manager
Ian Sullivan
, the system is meant to keep your communications free and private whether chatting with friends or protesting in the street, although he emphasized that it could help during disaster response. Similarly, the Occupy movements Occupy.here offers an
invisible temporary autonomous zone
that allows anyone within physical range of a device to use interact -- via Wi-Fi -- using the equivalent of an offline Web forum that gets carried on and replicated with each subsequent Occupy.here zone that the user encounters.

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