Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries from… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image