Barton Gellman Compute Quotations

Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.

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.

I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

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.'

Most computers today have built in backup software.

Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.