143 Quotes by Barton Gellman

The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.

China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.

Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.

Most computers today have built in backup software.

True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.

Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.

Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'