Barton Gellman Quotes
Top 65 wise famous quotes and sayings by Barton Gellman
Barton Gellman Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
No one can keep track of how many people use Internet, how many machines it can reach, or even how many sub- and sub-sub-networks form a part of it.
In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.
In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.
Counterterrorism analysts have known for years that al Qaeda prepares for attacks with elaborate 'targeting packages' of photographs and notes.
Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.
The defection of Hussein Kamel was a turning point in the U.N.-imposed disarmament of Iraq in the 1990s.
Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.
Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.
Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.
A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive.
Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.
When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.
Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.
There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.
Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.
The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.
There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'
In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.
The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.