Barton Gellman

Most computers today have built in backup software.

— Barton Gellman

Nothing is absolute in security.

— Barton Gellman

Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.

— Barton Gellman

Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.

— Barton Gellman

I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.

— Barton Gellman

Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.

— Barton Gellman

Al Qaeda is closely aligned with the Chechens.

— Barton Gellman

As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.

— Barton Gellman

NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.

— Barton Gellman

NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.

— Barton Gellman

Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.

— Barton Gellman

The defection of Hussein Kamel was a turning point in the U.N.-imposed disarmament of Iraq in the 1990s.

— Barton Gellman

Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.

— Barton Gellman

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

— Barton Gellman

By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.

— Barton Gellman

China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

— Barton Gellman

The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first…

— Barton Gellman

The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the…

— Barton Gellman

'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as…

— Barton Gellman

I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I…

— Barton Gellman

For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations.

— Barton Gellman

As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the…

— Barton Gellman

The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well…

— Barton Gellman

A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they…

— Barton Gellman

Everyone and his Big Brother wants to log your browsing habits, the better to build a profile of who you are and…

— Barton Gellman

Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of…

— Barton Gellman

In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral…

— Barton Gellman

For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits…

— Barton Gellman

First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with…

— Barton Gellman

Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of…

— Barton Gellman

Suppose a bad guy guesses the password for your throwaway Yahoo address. Now he goes to major banking and commerce sites and…

— Barton Gellman

If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords…

— Barton Gellman

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

— Barton Gellman

For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.

— Barton Gellman

True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.

— Barton Gellman

Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.

— Barton Gellman

In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'

— Barton Gellman

Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.

— Barton Gellman

The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.

— Barton Gellman

We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.

— Barton Gellman