John McAfee, the eccentric technology mogul who faked a heart attack during his time at a Guatemalan detention center after fleeing from Belizean police for the alleged murder of his neighbor, may still be most famous for his namesake anti-virus software.
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McAfee revealed his plans for a new company called Future Tense Central. The company's first product is D-Central, a hardware/software package still in development that aims to make any of its users anonymous and untraceable -- a product that could tap into the wariness of Americans in the wake of the National Security Agency data mining scandal.
... "It's quite possible the federal government will not allow me to sell this product, too," McAfee told the audience. "But the federal government is not the world. I mean, if that happens, I will swallow it and I will sell it in England, and if I can't sell it there, I'll sell it in Japan, I'll sell it in China, I'll sell it in Russia, I'll go to the Third World. This is coming and it can't be stopped."
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McAfee said D-Central isn't an attempt to create another type of Internet. Instead, D-Central combines many different pieces of technology into a single hardware/app package, compatible with both mobile devices and PCs.
From one point of view, it resembles a wireless router. "The device has a range of about three blocks in the city or a quarter of a mile out in the country," said McAfee. But instead of broadcasting a Wi-Fi signal that people use to access the Internet quickly, it broadcasts information that the device's owner wishes to declare public.
However, McAfee emphasized that while the information is in the public domain, the device owners' identities are not. "D-Central doesn't know who you are," said McAfee. "Every few minutes, [the device] changes its identification. There is simply no way to tell who is doing what, when or where."
