During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on Tokyo's central station. When punctured, the packages spread vaporized Sarin through the subway cars and then into the stations as the trains pulled in. Barton Gellman Car
U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well. Barton Gellman Intelligence
The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan. Barton Gellman Intelligence
I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends. Barton Gellman Travel
Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions. Barton Gellman Computers
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 Computers
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 Government
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 Legal