Simson Garfinkel

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Simson L. Garfinkel is a journalist and writer specializing in the field of computer security, who has written fourteen books on computing. Garfinkel has contributed regularly to the RISKS Digest, and has written for Wired magazine, The Boston Globe, CSO magazine, and Technology Review.

1 Biography
2 Trivia
3 Bibliography
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Biography

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Garfinkel obtained three S.B. degrees from MIT in 1987; a M.S. in journalism from Columbia University in 1988; and a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 2005. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Research on Computation at Society at Harvard University. Joining other technologists, writers and thinkers, Garfinkel was part of establishing the founding principles of Technorealism

In 2003 he and Abhi Shelat published an article in IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine reporting on an experiment in which he purchased 238 used hard drives from a variety of sources and checked to see whether they still contained readable data. Roughly one third of the drives appeared to have information that was highly confidential and should have been erased prior to the drive's resale.

[edit] Trivia

Garfinkel wrote one of the first articles about identity theft in 1989 and still writes frequently about privacy issues. Interestingly, he used Simon Garfinkel's social security number for more than 15 years due to a clerical error. Simon was Simson's paternal grandfather.

Garfinkel's name is very similar to that of the popular 60's folk group Simon & Garfunkel, which some have jokingly credited for his success as a journalist. [1] A parody web site made use of this similarity by crediting an article to "Simon Garfunkel, noted internet security expert and erstwhile singing duo". [2]

[edit] Bibliography

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Garfinkel, Simson and Michael K. Mahoney (2002). Building Cocoa Applications : A Step by Step Guide. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 0-596-00235-1.
Garfinkel, Simson (2000). Database Nation; The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 0-596-00105-3. (review by Peter G. Neumann and review by Eugene Spafford, in the RISKS Digest)
Garfinkel, Simson, Daniel Weise, and Steven Strassmann (editors) (1994). UNIX-HATERS Handbook. IDG. ISBN 1-56884-203-1.
Garfinkel, Simson and Robert C. Miller (2005). "Johnny 2: A User Test of Key Continuity Management with S/MIME and Outlook Express". Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security.
Garfinkel, Simson and Alan Schwartz (1998). Stopping Spam. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 1-56592-388-X. (review by Rob Slade in the RISKS Digest)
Garfinkel, Simson. "AOHell", The Boston Globe, 1995-04-21. (an article about AOHell, re-published in the RISKS Digest)
Garfinkel, Simson and Eugene Spafford (1996). Practical UNIX and Internet Security. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 1-56592-148-8. (review by Peter G. Neumann in the RISKS Digest)
Garfinkel, Simson and Michael K. Mahoney (1993). NeXTStep Programming. The Electronic Library of Science. ISBN 0-387-97884-4.