Barton Gellman
Barton Gellman
Barton David Gellmanis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth3 November 1960
CountryUnited States of America
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The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.
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For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones. The position required a balancing act, because the companies had to deflect attacks on the global reach of their patents, which granted exclusive marketing rights for antiretroviral drugs.
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As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone.
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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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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.
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Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.
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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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In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'
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In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.