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
Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
It turns out that American Express honors recurring payments even if the vendor is unable to supply an accurate card number and… — 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
At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors,… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading… — 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
