In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS. – Barton Gellman
For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux. – Barton Gellman
In general, states do not count on pledges of ‘no more war’ from their neighbors. Israel’s army never counted on it from Egypt, for example. – 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
Well-secured files don’t do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash. – Barton Gellman
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 of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs – the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited. – Barton Gellman
The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the Johnston Atoll, 825 miles southwest of Hawaii, in November 2000. – Barton Gellman
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
As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale. – Barton Gellman