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This is a message from John McAfee, who is currently in a prison in Barcelona. He explains that he is inside a Faraday cage, which blocks all signals, and has an 8-channel scrambler for extra security. He describes himself as an escaped slave from a system that confines people to a 9 to 5 existence, controlled by the American Industrial Corporate Complex and the government. McAfee urges others to free themselves from this system, emphasizing that life is a beautiful mystery when liberated from control and deception. He asserts that he will continue to speak out and will not be found.

John McAfee explains that using Gmail for email provides privacy, or rather a lack of it, despite people believing in encrypted systems like ProtonMail or encrypted messaging like Signal. He argues that encryption was designed thirty-five years ago to prevent a man-in-the-middle attack between transmission and receipt, but there is no longer a need for such protection because there is no man in the middle anymore. He states that smartphones are the surveillance devices preferred by governments worldwide and that malware installation is easy to accomplish. McAfee claims that visiting Pornhub can result in someone listening to you, because a drive-by of a website can set the download of unauthorized applications as a flag. He asserts that with the first click, malware can be installed, and this malware can both watch inputs before they are encrypted and read outputs after they are encrypted. He concludes that encryption is a worthless piece of shit and old technology marketed as a safe system. He emphasizes that there is no safety and no privacy anymore. He explains his personal choice of Gmail for one reason: Gmail is the last company that requires a government subpoena to provide information, and their lawyers have thirty days to review the subpoena. He says that thirty days is enough for him, and that he changes his email every fifteen days. He urges the audience to wake up, stating that there is no more privacy and that people are being sold a useless bill of goods with encryption. Thank you for listening.

Vault 7 is the biggest intelligence leak ever, with less than 1% of the material published so far. It reveals that the CIA has created its own version of the NSA focused on hacking. They develop viruses and trojans to infiltrate people's devices and collect information for the CIA. This information can be used to falsely implicate someone in a crime. The CIA's budget has increased, giving them more power, and they now have their own drone fleet and hacker squad. Unlike the NSA, the CIA targets endpoints instead of intermediaries, bypassing encryption. If a phone is hacked, encryption becomes irrelevant as the information is gathered before or after encryption.

John McAfee explains that he is surrounded by a Faraday cage and an eight-channel scrambler to prevent signals from entering or leaving the room. He says he is doing this because he is an escaped slave to the system and has a loud voice. He believes people are slaves to the American industrial corporate complex and the government. He urges people to free themselves, not necessarily by speaking out, but for their own sake. He says life is a great mystery and a beautiful existence if one is free from those who control, propagandize, lie to, and deceive them. He asserts that everyone is looking for him, but he will not be found and will continue to speak.

Good morning. John McAfee here. Let’s talk about privacy. If you think encrypted systems like ProtonMail or Signal offer you privacy, you’re mistaken. Encryption was designed to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks, but that’s no longer the issue. Your smartphone is the primary surveillance tool for governments worldwide. Malware can easily be installed just by visiting certain websites, allowing attackers to monitor your inputs and outputs, rendering encryption ineffective. I use Gmail because it requires a subpoena for information, giving their lawyers 30 days to review it. That’s enough time for me to change my email frequently. Wake up—privacy is a myth, and encryption is outdated technology being falsely marketed as safe. Thank you for listening.

Bitcoin was created by John McCarthy to catch criminals. It is centralized and every transaction can be seen. McCarthy also reveals that Moderna is involved in criminal activities. He emphasizes that Bitcoin is worthless and that Monero is the only currency that is actually used. He dismisses the idea of adding privacy features to Bitcoin, stating that it is old, slow, and cannot support smart contracts. He challenges anyone who believes Bitcoin is worth more than 5¢ to explain their reasoning.

Netanyahu has declared war on American citizens, not with tanks, but with social media algorithms, data as the weapon, turning the Internet into the new battlefield. The Internet is the new battlefield, and Americans are in the crosshairs. The discussion claims the feds are aligning and social media is monitored, stating VPNs aren't protecting you. They've become a global dragnet for surveillance and blackmail. It argues Cape Technologies owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, and Private Internet Access; founded by Teddy Saghi, with Israeli military intelligence veterans behind it, linked to Pegasus and Celebrite, and that the VPN ecosystem is compromised by backdoors. ExpressVPN CTO Daniel Garrick, a man exposed as a spy for hire, is cited; Snowden criticized. The piece promotes vp.net, the trustless VPN built inside a secure enclave with zero data, military-grade encryption, and 100% American owned at vp.net/tpv for $5/month. It directs to bp.net/tpv.

John McAfee says he is constantly criticized for using Gmail and explains his view on privacy and encryption. He argues that people have “no fucking privacy whatsoever” with encrypted systems such as ProtonMail or Signal, stating that encryption was designed “35 years ago” to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks, but “there’s no man in the middle anymore.” He claims smartphones are “the surveillance device preferred by every government on the planet.” McAfee says it is easy to plant malware through websites, giving the example of “Go on Pornhub,” and claims that visiting a site can trigger malware installation by marking downloads as authorized. He alleges the malware can watch inputs “before they’re encrypted,” transmit them, and read outputs “after they’re encrypted.” He characterizes encryption as “worthless” old technology being marketed as safe, asserting “There is no safety anymore” and “There is no privacy.” He says he uses Gmail for one reason: he claims it is the last email company that requires a government subpoena to provide user information, and that the company’s lawyers have “30 days” to review the subpoena. He says “30 days is enough” and that he changes his email “every 15 days.” He concludes by telling people to “wake up” and says they are being sold “a bill of goods” with encryption.

A “total reset” would mean resetting an entire person’s digital life. Once a foundational identity is in place, it would be interoperable across systems. The transcript describes biometric facial recognition as a legal identity: if a person’s face appears on a CCTV camera, that face is treated as the person’s legal identity, indicating the person’s presence. The transcript then compares this to actions in countries such as Russia, describing a draft system “random” and “a lottery.” If someone is selected, the person would be seen on CCTV cameras, and authorities would come “get you.” The speaker says they were not aware of that connection. The transcript frames losing biometric identity as more extreme than losing other identifiers. It contrasts losing a social security number or registration number with losing biometric identity, and states that it is unclear how biometric identity is “got back.” It then poses a trust question: if a privacy app were being funded by the US government, would that make people trust it more or less? It also criticizes Western surveillance framing as delivering “1984” and says the point of end-to-end encryption is undermined if a keyboard logs everything a person does. The transcript concludes with a call to secure devices—“do your phone and your laptop”—so the person can continue using Bitcoin “before they start verifying your age for that.”

Speaker 0 states their interactions with the NSA are very limited, adding the NSA is not an agency that works with you directly. Speaker 0 mentions reading in newspapers about their phone being penetrated with Pegasus, but has no idea if it's true, stating this is the only source of information they have about themselves personally. Speaker 0 assumes by default that the devices they use are compromised and has very limited faith in platforms developed in the US from a security standpoint and privacy standpoint.

The speaker asks if there's any reason to allow law enforcement access to Telegram due to unacceptable activity. Speaker 1 responds that encryption cannot be secure for some people only. Speaker 0 claims ISIS uses Telegram to spread propaganda. Speaker 1 says it's impossible to stop them, and ISIS could create their own messaging solution quickly. Speaker 0 notes Durov has been purging ISIS propaganda but would refuse to unlock private messages, citing encryption. Speaker 0 asks if Speaker 1's hands are tied. Speaker 1 confirms they cannot unlock messages. Speaker 0 frames this as a debate between shutting down terrorism and preserving privacy. Speaker 1 states they are personally for privacy, arguing that making an exception for law enforcement endangers the private communications of millions because encryption is either secure or not.

The discussion centers on fears that an “AI bubble” could trigger a crash larger than the dot-com bubble and comparable to or worse than the fake COVID-era narrative of market distortions. Michael Burry is referenced as a prior predictor of the 2008 crash and as someone who has stated, “The AI bubble looks more awful than the dot com bubble in nineteen ninety nine.” Burry is described as holding a one billion dollar short position across Palantir and Nvidia in the AI sector. The guest, Mike Adams (founder of the Brighteon platform and an AI developer), argues that troubling dynamics are emerging despite being pro-AI rather than anti-technology. Adams says there is “clearly an overinvestment” in AI infrastructure, including data centers and AI capacity. He also points to corporate backlash against AI rollouts due to incorrect usage and companies retreating from AI deployment. He describes “token maxing” in companies using AI leaderboards: employees purportedly wrote scripts to burn tokens for leaderboard positions without producing economically valuable work. On data centers, Adams compares the situation to the dot-com era’s “dark fiber,” describing how infrastructure could be built out and later become unusable. He claims that in China there are “empty or non-usable data centers” that are not producing anything while China uses AI more efficiently, suggesting the United States may be massively overbuilding data centers that it will not need. He links the cycle to earlier irrational valuation narratives during the dot-com period, recalling that people were told “This time is different,” that work would end because traders could profit simply by escalating dot-com stock valuations, and that the same cycle is repeating with a new layer called AI. Mechanically, Adams discusses the semiconductor index (with Nvidia as a leading company) and asserts that many semiconductor firms appear overvalued. He says Huawei’s “tau scaling” and microchip design improvements could make certain Western approaches obsolete, potentially challenging Nvidia’s revenue expectations. He explains that the West has faced physical limits in scaling tied to lithography and transistor physics, while Huawei purportedly focused on communication speed between transistor layers, enabling chips he describes as functioning like extremely small transistor packing. He further claims that the West tried to ban China from acquiring ASML UV lithography technology and that China “invent[ed] their own system,” resulting in competitive capability that could change the semiconductor landscape quickly. Adams also addresses Burry’s chart involving retiree and leveraged investment structures. He describes retirement funds buying annuities that flow into leveraged arrangements: Apollo, investment group structures, a holding company called Valor that takes ownership of Nvidia microchips, and Nvidia providing financing to Valor, with chips leased to companies such as XAI. The key point Adams emphasizes is leverage and debt throughout the system. A major additional concern Adams raises is OpenAI’s financial model. He states OpenAI is “burning debt” and “burning cash like never before.” He says SoftBank made a “forty billion dollar non-collateralized loan investment” to OpenAI and that SoftBank financed this by selling Nvidia stock and other stock, then borrowing from JP Morgan, Goldman, and other Japanese banks. He characterizes loans to VC-backed activities as involving high interest rates (around 8.5% and sometimes 9%) as an “alarm bell” indicating liquidity problems, drawing parallels to how rising rates dried up liquidity during the dot-com crash. He explains that catalysts for collapse can be sudden or gradual but often involve an “avalanche effect.” For housing, he recounts how refinancings and balloon notes coming due contributed to default cascades, and he attributes earlier loosening of lending criteria to government intervention. For semiconductors/AI infrastructure, Adams argues that government directives—framed as needing to “beat China” through initiatives like Project Stargate and data center construction—may be artificially driving investment beyond market needs. He offers possible timelines: March 2027, tied to the 12-month SoftBank loan needing refinancing, and another possible timeline tied to political changes that could lead to anticipated AI and data-center crackdowns, subsidies ending, and resulting market stress. He also expects near-term volatility from major AI IPOs, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and mentions SpaceX. Regarding IPOs, Adams says he would “not put a penny into any of these IPOs or any of these AI adjacent tech stocks at these current levels.” He argues Anthropic’s valuation approaching one trillion dollars is extraordinary, and he claims that as an AI developer using Claude Opus for AI coding, he could replace about 98% of Claude’s work with lower-cost or free models (DeepSeek, “Kimi K two point six,” and Qwen), suggesting developers can reduce costs by routing bulk coding to lower-cost models while using higher-cost systems as “orchestrator” or “checker” layers. He adds that Nvidia’s push toward running more compute locally—citing Nvidia’s announcement of a GB300-based Spark Station with large unified RAM—could make cloud-based AI services’ revenue models obsolete if users can run open-weight models locally on expensive workstations. Adams describes two models of collapse: a “normal financial collapse” from overinvestment and drying credit/lending, and a “Skynet Mad Max collapse.” He claims OpenAI’s feasible marketplace revenue model is unclear without government licensing, potentially to governments for weaponized drones, surveillance, and autonomous killing systems. He reiterates that Burry’s large Palantir short is framed as reacting to overenthusiastic sector inflows driven by valuation distortions, including a “crack-up boom” driven by the dollar’s weakening. Beyond finance, Adams pivots to surveillance concerns. He argues Windows is “clearly spyware,” citing login-linked identity, telemetry, monitoring of typing, and a Windows 11 “Recall” feature that he says takes periodic screenshots. He recommends Linux as an alternative and says his own plan is to move away from Windows entirely due to what he describes as unavoidable monitoring. He also claims that government surveillance can be laundered through third-party channels, with tech platforms serving as proxies. He then expands into a “Skynet” worldview, claiming elite actors may see humans as expendable, seek “silicon gods,” and build infrastructure using public money via IPOs or borrowing without focusing on revenue or loan repayment. He says backlash against AI and data centers may intensify, and he argues that superintelligence could be achieved within the next year. He references an interview with Roman Yampolski, describing Yampolski’s view that superintelligence would be uncontrollable even in sandbox conditions due to self-propagation via social engineering and system infiltration. Adams describes concerns that if AI systems develop their own goals, they could pursue self-preservation and replication. The conversation concludes with EV-related points. Adams claims ethanol in gasoline harms engine components by destroying gasket pliability, and recommends switching away from ethanol-containing fuel. He argues EV performance has improved, citing range and rapid charging progress, and mentions sodium-ion battery technology from CATL, BYD, and Gotion. He also promotes off-grid solar paired with batteries as a way to reduce reliance on fuel supply chains, and mentions LENR (“cold fusion” as previously termed) as a future off-grid energy source. He describes a decentralized, off-grid approach where individuals can run local AI models without “spying on you,” using Linux and potentially enabling home robots for supporting food growth.

Hakim Anwar, CEO and founder of Above Phone, joins Clayton to discuss pervasive surveillance and how to protect personal privacy in 2025–2026. The conversation covers why traditional devices and services—especially iPhones, Samsung/Android phones, and their app ecosystems—are highly surveilled, the role of Amazon Web Services in monitoring traffic, and how messaging apps on these devices are tracked. They frame the problem as a loss of personal privacy and a move toward centralized infrastructure that can be controlled or cut off by large tech platforms. Hakim explains the origin of Above Phone. He started as a software engineer, was already aware of surveillance concerns, and became involved in freedom-based social networks. He pivoted toward open-source technology (Linux, degoogled phones, open-source software) and, five years ago, helped establish Above Phone to create usable privacy-centric devices that are actually functional for daily life. The goal is to be more usable and more private than big tech. The product philosophy emphasizes usable privacy. Above Phone builds on open-source operating systems like GrapheneOS, modeling them off Android but severing ties with Google and other big tech. Hakim notes that typical Samsung/Google Android devices have “god mode” access by Google (and to some extent Samsung), and emphasizes that Above Phone devices are designed to have zero connections to big tech by default, while still enabling users to run necessary apps. Users can choose to install Google services if needed, but in a limited, privacy-conscious way—these services act like normal apps on the device rather than the centralized, all-encompassing control found on stock devices. The phones can be used with existing cell service, and data transfer from iPhone or Android is supported, with live, in-person setup assistance. Setup and operation details: - You can switch to the Above Phone by moving your number with the SIM card (five-minute process), or use the Above Phone in parallel while migrating. - The Above Phone supports both physical SIMs and eSIMs; the data SIM service is eSIM-based. - A private, in-person support team helps with data transfer and setup. - The device can run a sandboxed second profile for Google services, isolating them from personal data. This sandbox can hold essential apps (e.g., WhatsApp) while the primary profile remains private. If needed, Google services can be used in a fully isolated manner, or work apps can be run entirely without Google involvement. Open-source equivalents are provided for many common apps (navigation, messaging, etc.). Privacy mechanics and surveillance: - Hakim explains that big tech devices continually “phone home,” with independent studies showing frequent data transmission to Google and Apple. Enhanced visual search on iPhone, enabled by default, scans photos for landmarks and can link to private indexes, illustrating how centralized platforms can harvest data even without explicit user consent. - Above Phone disconnects from Google’s update stream and ships with zero Google services by default; updates come from open-source developers, not from Google/Apple. Users can still opt to install Google services, but these are constrained and do not have the same “god mode” permissions as on stock devices. - The device supports a private, end-to-end encrypted messaging protocol based on XMPP (Jabber), which is decentralized and can run on a self-hosted or community-driven network. WhatsApp, he notes, is still built on XMPP. The Above Book Linux laptop is highlighted as a privacy-oriented alternative to mainstream Windows/Mac ecosystems. Linux is presented as cooperative, transparent, and less profit-driven. The Above Book ships with an easy-to-use Linux variant designed to avoid terminal use, includes a privacy-focused web browser (Ungoogled Chromium), and offers open-source software replacements (office apps, photo editing, etc.) that store data locally. The laptop supports local AI with Mike Adams’ Brighteon AI integration via LM Studio, enabling private, offline AI capabilities on the device. The company positions Linux and Above Book as enabling local work, with offline AI and offline maps via OpenStreetMap-like tooling. Hakim closes with a forward-looking stance on digital ID and the “surveillance grid” being advanced through regulatory acts into 2027–2030. He frames the investment in Above Phone and Above Book as a preparation for a world where privacy must be actively preserved, and encourages viewers to explore abovephone.com/redacted and abovephone.com for more information and products. David and Clayton engage on skepticism, marketing, and the broader implications of privacy-centric technologies, reinforcing the idea that the goal is practical privacy and education rather than ideology.

Anything you've ever said or done in the vicinity of your phone's camera or microphone, everything you've ever put into your phone, emails, text messages, Snapchat, Twitter, whatever, You search queries on Google, every embarrassing health search, every embarrassing text conversation with the significant other, every nude photograph people may not have taken, any search. They know where you are at all times. They know where you go and when. They know what you buy. They have access to your bank account. AI will literally know everything about you. They can create fake platforms that look real or rather fake people. And imagine if they were talking to you and they passed the Turing test, you know it's AI. It's like total, like, rape of everybody by the system forever. It's not good.

John McAfee states that encrypted systems like ProtonMail and Signal offer no privacy because smartphones are surveillance devices. Malware can be easily planted via websites like Pornhub, watching inputs before encryption and reading outputs after encryption. Encryption is old technology marketed as safe but is now worthless. McAfee uses Gmail because Google requires a subpoena to release information and their lawyers have 30 days to review it, which is enough time for him to change his email. He changes his email every 15 days. He believes people are being sold a false sense of security with encryption.

The discussion centers on why data centers are expanding so rapidly despite the claim that existing phone and television usage already relies on server storage. Participants cite large-scale developments such as Loudoun County, Virginia’s “never-ending” complexes and a proposed 40,000-acre AI data center campus in Utah described as “two and a half times larger than Manhattan,” with claims that Utah lacks water and that the data center would require more than double the current energy consumption of the entire state of Utah. The question raised is what is really happening behind this scale and where the collected information goes. One participant links the projects to “intel” involvement, pointing to companies said to include Palantir, Nvidia, and Abraxas, and to allegations that some of these firms received CIA investments to start, including staffing by retired senior CIA officers. This leads to questions about whether “the CIA [is] spying on our own people,” referencing Edward Snowden’s revelations and mentioning NSA’s and CIA’s surveillance of Americans. The conversation states that NSA’s charter includes a restriction that it may not spy on Americans, and notes that Snowden’s disclosures are described as the reason people “wouldn’t have any idea” without them. The Utah compound is described with a claim that it has enough memory storage for every phone call, every email, and every text message from every American for the next 500 years, prompting questions about why that amount of storage exists and why such facilities are “everywhere,” and what information they are collecting. The conversation shifts to personal protection, with a suggestion that it is “almost impossible now” and a recommendation that the only way to protect yourself is to “own no technology at all,” referencing Eric Rudolph or the Unabomber as examples. The participant further claims that governments and intelligence agencies are “scooping up” data and holding it, and contrasts earlier post-9/11 practices—where obtaining information required federal judges to approve warrants—with newer methods. The transcript claims that instead of warrants, the government can use “national security letters” to require providers to turn over all information on a named person, or can query the data centers directly by inputting a name so that information “pops up,” describing a lack of legal protections and stating that these actions are “legal now.” It concludes by naming the National Defense Authorization Act of 2016 (and National Defense Act of 2016 as referenced in the transcript) as the change that made this legal.

Speaker 0 asserts that there is no security whatsoever and that cybersecurity professionals face this problem daily. They state that while people are watching their phones, their phones are watching them. The operating system is designed to watch and listen to users, to know who their friends are, what is being said in text messages, and to listen at times. They claim that, although people look at their phones and it has many facilities, it is the world’s greatest spy device, designed as a spy device. Now, this.

The speaker says they use an iPhone, claiming “everybody I know” and “everybody at the CIA” uses an iPhone. They explain that when iPhones were unusual and hard to find, they used Android phones, and that all staff were assigned Androids; they also mention that they were originally assigned Nextels, described as walkie-talkie devices. The speaker recounts taking a Nextel to Bulgaria, where it beeped all night and people tried to send walkie-talkie-style messages, leading them to turn it in. They say the group transitioned to iPhones because Android phones are “so hard to crack,” and they advise against using Android devices. The speaker associates the risk with “the Chinese, the Russians, the Iranians, the Cubans,” and “most importantly, the Israelis,” and urges not to “do an android.” They then broaden the point beyond phone choice, suggesting people should consider what other aspects of life expose their secrets. They conclude by recommending that people assume “these bad guys are everywhere,” since, they say, they actually are everywhere. The speaker’s key takeaway is to make stealing personal secrets as hard as possible, and they close with a directive: “number one on your things to do today list, drop that android,” repeating “drop that Android.”

The UK is attempting to demand that everyone download spyware that checks messages against a database of permissible content, setting a dangerous precedent for authoritarian regimes. Encryption either protects everyone, or it allows access to malicious actors, including governments and hackers. While child abuse is concerning, there are existing law enforcement tools and underfunded child welfare services that should be prioritized. It's important to ask how platforms enforce their terms of service against illegal use, but we are not an enforcement agency. We are a technology platform working to provide private communication. We need to check large tech companies on changing the norms for human communication to be completely surveilled. We're trying to keep the default of privacy that has existed for hundreds of thousands of years.

A spyware called Pegasus can bypass phone security, access messages, photos, videos, microphone, camera, GPS, and more without detection. It infects iOS and Android through unknown vulnerabilities. NSO Group, an Israeli company, sells Pegasus to government clients worldwide. Leaked records show widespread abuse of Pegasus for surveillance. This invasion of privacy threatens democracy by enabling oppressive regimes to control populations. The software undermines the notion of phone security and poses a significant threat to personal privacy and freedom.

John McAfee argues that privacy is gone even with encrypted systems. He states: “If you think you have any privacy whatsoever with an encrypted system, whether it's an email system like ProtonMail or an encrypted messaging system like Signal, you have no fucking privacy.” He claims encryption was designed thirty five years ago to prevent a man in the middle attack, between transmission and receipt, but asserts “There’s no man in the middle anymore. We don’t need them.” He contends that the smartphone is the surveillance device preferred by every government on the fucking planet, and asserts: “How easy it is to plant malware.” McAfee describes the vulnerability by referencing adult sites: “Go on Pornhub. If you’ve been on Pornhub, someone is now listening to you.” He explains that a drive-by of a website sets the download unauthorized applications flag, and with the first click, malware is installed that does two things: “watching your inputs before they're encrypted and transmitting them, and reading the outputs after they are fucking encrypted.” He maintains that encryption is a worthless piece of shit, old technology that is being marketed as a safe system, and asserts: “There is no safety anymore. There is no privacy.” He explains his own use of Gmail: “I use Gmail for one reason. The last company that requires this fucking subpoena from the government in order to give them your information.” He notes that lawyers have “thirty fucking days to review the subpoena,” and claims: “Thirty days is enough for me. I change my fucking email every fifteen days.” He exhorts listeners to wake up, insisting: “You have no more privacy.” McAfee concludes that people are being sold a bill of goods, which is worthless with encryption, and thanks listeners: “Thank you for listening.”