Barton Gellman Quotes
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Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.
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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 rendered a chronic condition.
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Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.
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Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
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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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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.
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.
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Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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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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I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.
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I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.