Quotes by Barton Gellman

About Barton Gellman:

Barton David Gellman is an American journalist and bestselling author known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning reports on the September 11 attacks, on Dick Cheney's powerful vice presidency and on the global surveillance disclosure.
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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.

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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.

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Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of hi...

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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

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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...

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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.

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The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

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

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

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Clinton saw himself much more as the steward of alliances and of consensus that moved in the right direction. He didn't see himself as someone who could change the overall thrust, I think, of global policy.

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

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

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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS...

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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.

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Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.

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Most computers today have built in backup software.

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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

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Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.

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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...

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Author Bio

  • NameBarton Gellman
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • Born1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist
  • AwardsGeorge Polk Award