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Simson L. Garfinkel is an Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. His research interests include computer forensics, usable security, personal information management, information policy and terrorism. (Read full bio.)

Recent Tutorials and Presentations

• 2013-02-22 Bulk Data Analysis With Optimistic Decompression.
• 2013-01-07 Digital Forensics Innovation: Searching A Terabyte of Data in 10 minutes (DCACM, Washington DC)
• 2012-01-11 The Cybersecurity Mess, and what SFS students can do about it.

See also my Presentations Archive

Recent Publications

Academic

1. Young J., Foster, K., Garfinkel, S., and Fairbanks, K., Distinct Sector Hashes for Target File Detection, IEEE Computer, December 2012
2. Garfinkel, S. Digital Forensics XML and the DFXML toolset, Digital Investigation, 2012.
3. Garfinkel, S., and Dinolt, G. Operations with Degraded Security. IEEE Security & Privacy, pages 18–23, November/December 2011
4. Beverly, Robert, Simson Garfinkel and Greg Cardwell, "Forensic Carving of Network Packets and Associated Data Structures", DFRWS 2011, Aug. 1-3, 2011, New Orleans, LA BEST PAPER AWARD (Acceptance rate: 23%, 14/62)

Journalistic

• Windows 8: Design over Usability, Technology Review, February 20, 2013
• How to Delete Regrettable Posts from the Internet, Technology Review, October 30, 2012.
• Seven Ways to get yourself hacked, Technology Review, December 15, 2011.
• A Cloud over Ownership: Online services set content free from the physical world’s constraints—including those that have defined the very idea of possession,Technology Review, August 23, 2011

Current Projects Software and systems tcpflow, a TCP/IP session reassembler. bulk_extractor, a high-speed feature extractor Digital Forensics XML. The Forensics Wiki. I founded this wiki, monitor it, and contribute. Writing MIT Technology Review, guest contributor Computers & Security, Associate Editor 'Technical Privacy Auditing with computer forensics tools You may also be interested in my Future Projects, especially if you are looking for ideas. Completed Projects Software SBook5, a free-format address book for MacOS. (1991--2006) AFF, The Advanced Forensic Format (for storing digital evidence) Writing NeXTWORLD Magazine (1991--1993) 10 Spring Street, Vineyard Haven, Virtual Tour (1995) Agenda, an early conference scheduling app for PalmOS. (2001) Stream, an opportunistic encryption proxy. (2003) Print your own notepaper (2003, but it still works!) Updated MediaWiki BibText Extension (2007) docx_steg Tools for hiding information in docx files and printing their contents (2008) Digitally Signed Do-Not-Reply Email Useful Resources Current Toolset -- The tools that I use in my research Open Source Computer Science Books -- A good list Mac Resources LaTeX Resources Python Resources Web Resources Windows Resources XML Resources Student Resources SEED: Developing Instructional Laboratories for Computer SEcurity EDucation Where to find me online Articles in Technology Review ACM Digital Library Author Profile Or just click: Official ACM Publications DBLP Profile LinkedIn Profile Citeulike Profile ForensicsWiki User Page Wikipedia Article on Simson Garfinkel Amazon.com Listmania! Lists Other sites of interest http://ex.nitroba.org --- All that's left of Deus Ex Machina Software now that we sold the ex.com domain. http://dmr.nitroba.org --- Donald M. Rosenbergs online site (his papers are at the Michigan State University Archives). http://realworlddocs.com --- My fathers newly published book on document drafting. http://forensicwiki.org --- Wiki for computer forensics