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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. - Barton Gellman
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The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing. - 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
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Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel. - Barton Gellman
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Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants. - 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
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At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership. - Barton Gellman
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The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities. - Barton Gellman
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Most computers today have built in backup software. - Barton Gellman
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Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions. - Barton Gellman
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Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you. - Barton Gellman
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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. - Barton Gellman
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The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians. - Barton Gellman
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A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive. - Barton Gellman
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Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life. - Barton Gellman
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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. - Barton Gellman
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Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers - scores at a time - into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington. - Barton Gellman
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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
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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. - Barton Gellman
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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.' - Barton Gellman
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media. - Barton Gellman
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Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files. - Barton Gellman
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Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals. - Barton Gellman
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In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack. - Barton Gellman
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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 8, 1980. - Barton Gellman
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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. - Barton Gellman
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends. - Barton Gellman
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The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents. - Barton Gellman
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