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  1. In Memoriam: Vicki L. Hanson

    Article • Communications of the ACM, February 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Eugene H. Spafford, Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  2. Platforms of power The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity Tim Wu Knopf, 2025. 224 pp.

    Article • Science, November 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  3. A Simulated Reconstruction and Reidentification Attack on the 2010 U.S. Census

    Article • September 2025, The MIT Press

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  4. Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator—Keith Houston (New York, NY, USA: Norton, 2023, 374 pp.)

    Article • IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, June 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  5. Differential Privacy, Firm-Level Data, and the Binomial Pathology

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, January 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  6. In Memoriam: E. Allen Emerson

    Article • Communications of the ACM, November 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Eugene H. Spafford, Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  7. Complete Delete: In Practice, Clicking 'Delete' Rarely Deletes. Should it?

    Article • September 2024, PubPub

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  8. De-identifying government datasets:

    Article • September 2023, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  9. Comment to Muralidhar and Domingo-Ferrer (2023) – Legacy Statistical Disclosure Limitation Techniques Were Not An Option for the 2020 US Census of Population And Housing

    Article • Journal of Official Statistics, September 2023, SAGE Publications

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  10. Sharpening Your Tools

    Article • Communications of the ACM, July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  11. Sharpening Your Tools

    Article • Queue, February 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  12. The 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance System TopDown Algorithm

    Article • June 2022, The MIT Press

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  13. More on computing's divided future

    Article • Communications of the ACM, May 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  14. The Philosophy of Differential Privacy

    Article • Notices of the American Mathematical Society, November 2021, American Mathematical Society (AMS)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  15. In Memoriam: Ronald E. Anderson, 1941-2020

    Article • Communications of the ACM, January 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Eugene H. Spafford, Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  16. Randomness Concerns when Deploying Differential Privacy

    Article • November 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  17. Understanding database reconstruction attacks on public data

    Article • Communications of the ACM, February 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  18. Understanding Database Reconstruction Attacks on Public Data

    Article • Queue, October 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  19. Issues Encountered Deploying Differential Privacy

    Article • January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  20. Privacy and Security Concerns When Social Scientists Work with Administrative and Operational Data

    Article • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, December 2017, SAGE Publications

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  21. Organizational practices in cryptographic development and testing

    Article • October 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  22. Toward algorithmic transparency and accountability

    Article • Communications of the ACM, August 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  23. Comparing the Usability of Cryptographic APIs

    Article • May 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  24. Picking up the trash: Exploiting generational GC for memory analysis

    Article • Digital Investigation, March 2017, Elsevier

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  25. Trustworthy Email

    Article • September 2016, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  26. Government Data De-Identification Stakeholder's Meeting June 29, 2016 Meeting Report

    Article • September 2016, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  27. Secure and Usable Enterprise Authentication: Lessons from the Field

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, September 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  28. Privacy-Preserving IR 2016

    Article • July 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  29. De-identification of personal information

    Article • October 2015, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  30. Hash-based carving: Searching media for complete files and file fragments with sector hashing and hashdb

    Article • Digital Investigation, August 2015, Elsevier

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  31. The Prevalence of Encoded Digital Trace Evidence in the Nonfile Space of Computer Media,,

    Article • Journal of Forensic Sciences, July 2014, Wiley

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  32. Can We Sniff Wi-Fi?: Implications of Joffe v. Google

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, July 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  33. Leaking Sensitive Information in Complex Document Files--and How to Prevent It

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, January 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  34. Analysis of the Use of XOR as an Obfuscation Technique in a Real Data Corpus

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  35. Detecting threatening insiders with lightweight media forensics

    Article • November 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  36. Language translation for file paths

    Article • Digital Investigation, August 2013, Elsevier

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  37. Digital media triage with bulk data analysis and bulk_extractor

    Article • Computers & Security, February 2013, Elsevier

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  38. Digital Forensics

    Article • American Scientist, January 2013, Sigma Xi

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  39. Distinct Sector Hashes for Target File Detection

    Article • Computer, December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  40. A general strategy for differential forensic analysis

    Article • Digital Investigation, August 2012, Elsevier

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  41. Lessons learned writing digital forensics tools and managing a 30TB digital evidence corpus

    Article • Digital Investigation, August 2012, Elsevier

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  42. The cybersecurity risk

    Article • Communications of the ACM, June 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  43. Digital forensics XML and the DFXML toolset

    Article • Digital Investigation, February 2012, Elsevier

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  44. Column: Factors Affecting Data Decay

    Article • The Journal of Digital Forensics Security and Law, January 2012, ERAU Hunt Library - DIGITAL COMMONS JOURNALS

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  45. Finding Anomalous and Suspicious Files from Directory Metadata on a Large Corpus

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  46. Operations with Degraded Security

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, November 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  47. Forensic carving of network packets and associated data structures

    Article • Digital Investigation, August 2011, Elsevier

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  48. Extending digital repository architectures to support disk image preservation and access

    Article • June 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  49. Column: Every Last Byte

    Article • The Journal of Digital Forensics Security and Law, January 2011, ERAU Hunt Library - DIGITAL COMMONS JOURNALS

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  50. Column: File Cabinet Forensics

    Article • The Journal of Digital Forensics Security and Law, January 2011, ERAU Hunt Library - DIGITAL COMMONS JOURNALS

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  51. An Automated Solution to the Multiuser Carved Data Ascription Problem

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, December 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  52. Wouldn't it be nice to have software labels

    Article • October 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  53. CS expertise for institutional review boards

    Article • Communications of the ACM, August 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  54. Digital forensics research: The next 10 years

    Article • Digital Investigation, August 2010, Elsevier

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  55. Using purpose-built functions and block hashes to enable small block and sub-file forensics

    Article • Digital Investigation, August 2010, Elsevier

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  56. Institutional review boards and your research

    Article • Communications of the ACM, June 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  57. Global Analysis of Drive File Times

    Article • May 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  58. Bringing science to digital forensics with standardized forensic corpora

    Article • Digital Investigation, September 2009, Elsevier

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  59. Extending the advanced forensic format to accommodate multiple data sources, logical evidence, arbitrary information and forensic workflow

    Article • Digital Investigation, September 2009, Elsevier

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  60. File Fragment Classification-The Case for Specialized Approaches

    Article • May 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  61. Automating Disk Forensic Processing with SleuthKit, XML and Python

    Article • May 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  62. New XML-Based Files Implications for Forensics

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, March 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  63. Providing Cryptographic Security and Evidentiary Chain-of-Custody with the Advanced Forensic Format, Library, and Tools

    Article • International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics, January 2009, IGI Global

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  64. Practical Applications of Bloom Filters to the NIST RDS and Hard Drive Triage

    Article • December 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  65. Information Of The World, Unite!

    Article • Scientific American A Matter of Time, September 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  66. Amazon S3 for science grids

    Article • June 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  67. Sharp Figures, Fuzzy Purpose

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, March 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  68. Document & Media Exploitation

    Article • Queue, November 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  69. Carving contiguous and fragmented files with fast object validation

    Article • Digital Investigation, September 2007, Elsevier

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  70. Bitfrost

    Article • July 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  71. Complete delete vs. time machine computing

    Article • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, January 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  72. Guest Editors' Introduction: Data Surveillance

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, November 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  73. Forensic feature extraction and cross-drive analysis

    Article • Digital Investigation, September 2006, Elsevier

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  74. Do security toolbars actually prevent phishing attacks?

    Article • April 2006, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  75. Standardizing digital evidence storage

    Article • Communications of the ACM, February 2006, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  76. AFF

    Article • Communications of the ACM, February 2006, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  77. Advanced Forensic Format: an Open Extensible Format for Disk Imaging

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  78. Issues in Automatic Provenance Collection

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  79. One Big File Is Not Enough: A Critical Evaluation of the Dominant Free-Space Sanitization Technique

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  80. RFID Privacy: An Overview of Problems and Proposed Solutions

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, May 2005, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  81. How to make secure email easier to use

    Article • April 2005, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  82. Johnny 2

    Article • January 2005, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  83. Views, Reactions and Impact of Digitally-Signed Mail in e-Commerce

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  84. Guest Editors' Introduction: Secure or Usable?

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, September 2004, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  85. Interface

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, March 2004, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  86. Email-based identification and authentication: an alternative to PKI?

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, November 2003, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  87. Leaderless resistance today

    Article • First Monday, March 2003, University of Illinois Libraries

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  88. Remembrance of data passed: a study of disk sanitization practices

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, January 2003, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  89. My net connection approaches light speed with cable, but that doesn't guarantee victory over DSL

    Article • April 2000, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  90. Public key cryptography

    Article • Computer, June 1996, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  91. Risks of social security numbers

    Article • Communications of the ACM, October 1995, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  92. NeXTSTEP™ PROGRAMMING

    Article • January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  93. Viewpoint

    Article • Communications of the ACM, November 1990, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel

  94. AIDS and the Soundex Code

    Article • IRB Ethics and Human Research, September 1988, Wiley

    Chief Scientist Simson Garfinkel