The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere. Barton Gellman Read Quote
The CIA now assesses that four nations – Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France – have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus. Barton Gellman Read Quote
I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends. Barton Gellman Read Quote
The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing. Barton Gellman Read Quote
I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help. Barton Gellman Read Quote
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 Coke’s secret recipe on your iPhone. Barton Gellman Read Quote
Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don’t want your employer to know you’re job hunting. You don’t spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don’t tell trade secrets to your rivals. Barton Gellman Read Quote
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. Barton Gellman Read Quote
A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive. Barton Gellman Read Quote
It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media. Barton Gellman Read Quote
