Barton Gellman Quotes
The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.
When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.
Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
'Social engineering, ' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.
At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.
The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.
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 other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.
U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
