“ Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions. Barton Gellman
“ During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on Tokyo's central station. When punctured, the packages spread vaporiz… Barton Gellman
“ I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends. Barton Gellman
“ Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few. Barton Gellman
“ No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure. Barton Gellman
“ The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities. Barton Gellman
“ Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 19… Barton Gellman
“ Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to gov… Barton Gellman
“ The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one… Barton Gellman
“ 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
“ By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them. Barton Gellman
“ The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing. Barton Gellman
“ 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
“ Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection,… Barton Gellman
“ The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an intern… Barton Gellman
“ Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or… Barton Gellman
“ 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. Barton Gellman
