UNIX-hater's Handbook by Simson Garfinkel

UNIX-hater's Handbook by Simson Garfinkel

Simson Garfinkel is a Naval Postgraduate School Associate Professor. Garfinkel's research interests include digital forensics, usable security, data fusion, information policy, and terrorism. He is based in Arlington, Virginia. He has seven US patents and has hundreds of academic articles on security and digital forensics to his credit. He is a member of the National Society of Science Writers, as well as an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Senior Member. Garfinkel is the author of 14 computer books.

His book Database Nation: The Destruction of Privacy in the Twenty-First Century is possibly his most well-known work. Since its initial edition in 1991, Garfinkel's most popular book, Practical UNIX and Internet Security (co-authored with Gene Spafford), has sold over 250,000 copies and been translated into other languages. Garfinkel is also a journalist who has published over a thousand articles on science, technology, and policy. He is the recipient of various journalism honors, including the Jesse H.

For his Machine Shop series in CSO magazine, Neal won the National Business Journalism Award. He now contributes to Technology Review Magazine as well as their website. Vineyard, which supplied Internet connection on Martha's Vineyard from 1995 until 2005, and Sandstorm Enterprises, an early developer of commercial computer forensic tools, are two of Garfinkel's five businesses. Garfinkel graduated from MIT with three Bachelor of Science degrees in 1987, a Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University in 1988, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1990.

In 2005, he received his bachelor's degree in computer science from MIT.