143 Quotes by Barton Gellman

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

If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.

In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.

Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.

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 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.

Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.

Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.

Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.

Suppose a bad guy guesses the password for your throwaway Yahoo address. Now he goes to major banking and commerce sites and looks for an account registered to that email address. When he finds one, he clicks the 'forgot my password' button and a new one is sent - to your compromised email account. Now he's in a position to do you serious harm.