John McAfee now says he lied about how he would hack an iPhone in order to “get a s—load of public attention.”

“By doing so, I knew that I would get a s—load of public attention, which I did,” McAfee said in a Monday interview with the Daily Dot. “My point is to bring to the American public the problem that the FBI is trying to [fool] the American public. How am I going to do that, by just going off and saying it? No one is going to listen to that crap.