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Barton Gellman

American Journalist

Born: Nov 3, 1960

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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure. Barton Gellman

Law Our Retirement Know Because Disclosure Accounts Requires

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. Barton Gellman

One common puzzle for the security-minded is how to work with confidential data on the road. Sometimes you can't bring your laptop, or don't want to. But working on somebody else's machine exposes you to malware and leaves behind all kinds of electronic trails. Barton Gellman

The IronClad is faster than most thumb drives but far slower than a standard hard drive. Boot up, application launch and other Windows operations feel sluggish, though still usable. Barton Gellman

I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account. Barton Gellman

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On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal. Barton Gellman

Leadership Justice Top General Over Attorney Attorney General Reached Surveillance Department James Orders Acting Illegal Electronic Believed March Resignation Brink

In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats. Barton Gellman

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Leaders at the top of al Qaeda's hierarchy, the evidence shows, completed plans and obtained the materials required to manufacture two biological toxins - botulinum and salmonella - and the chemical poison cyanide. Barton Gellman

Poison Top Completed Evidence Hierarchy Leaders Obtained Chemical Materials Required Plans Manufacture Shows Al Biological Two

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

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The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus. Barton Gellman

CIA Virus France Some Russia Smallpox Korea Surprise Iraq North North Korea Nations Samples Specialists Now Four

For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event. Barton Gellman

Political Chaos Telling About How Governments Than Behave Bureaucratic Public Far Far Less Less Reasons Initial Prepare Event Levels

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. Barton Gellman

Government Food Terrorism Guidance Water Advice Batteries Three-Day Kit Sacrifices Supply Maintain Along Practical Radio Usual Nearly Tone

Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed. Barton Gellman

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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

Confidence Legal Worry Security About Shareholders Vendors Said Loss Report Experts Public Customer Flaws Companies Liability

The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi custody, according to officials and former officials in all three countries. Barton Gellman

Government Custody Intelligence Three Spring President Channel Back Direct Countries Employing Him Arrest According Offered Officials Place Central Former Agency Sudan Bin Early Saudi

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

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