By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and… — 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
