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

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

— 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 government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.

— Barton Gellman

Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.

— Barton Gellman

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 vaporized Sarin through the subway cars and then into the stations as the trains pulled in.

— Barton Gellman

Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.

— Barton Gellman

Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel.

— 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

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.

— Barton Gellman