U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
No one can keep track of how many people use Internet, how many machines it can reach, or even how many sub-… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S.… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 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