This is not like where we go to war against Germany or Russia or Iran or Iraq. Do you think we're still losing a cyber war? You've been in cyber security for a long time now. But we are spied on by everything, from our TVs to the cameras in the streets to our smartphones.
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The only difference is, we're free to walk around, so far. But it's clear now that we're living in 1984. This is the easiest of all things, and the CIA just admitted that and explained how they do that. It showed what I've been saying all along, that anyone can make a hack look like it originated from someone else. Which makes our industry weaker and costs us billions of dollars, and makes us far more unsafe as citizens. It showed us that the CIA, I think, has an absolute lack of conscience, by keeping from American industry all of the zero-day exploits- many of which the CIA created, by the way- from the industry. Well, it showed us that nothing is impossible, if you're a state actor, in terms of spying on people, developing cyber weapons. So what did last week's Wikileaks about the CIA show us about the state of cyber security? I spoke to John McAfee, the antivirus pioneer, about what the Wikileaks revelations mean for cyber security, whether America is losing the cyber war, and what will happen next. The documents purported to show that the agency has the ability to hack into smartphones from major brands like Google and iOS, and smart devices like smart TVs. Wikileaks recently published documents that they claim to be from the CIA. You can enable subtitles (captions) in the video player