Barton Gellman Quotes

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Barton Gellman

Profession : Journalist

Birth : November 3, 1960

There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.

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True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.

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Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers - scores at a time - into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington.

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Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn't stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad.

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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.

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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

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The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.

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For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.

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I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'

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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.

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Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.

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Ecuador has never stated flatly that it would give asylum to Edward Snowden.

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Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.

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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.

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Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.

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White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.

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The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

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Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

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By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.

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In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.

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