Simson Garfinkel is a computer security researcher and an award-winning commentator on information technology. Among his twelve books are Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (O'Reilly, 2001) and Practical UNIX and Internet Security, Third Edition (O'Reilly, 2003). A columnist for Technology Review and CSO magazine, Garfinkel's CSO columns earned the 2004 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award. He is a doctoral candidate at MIT's Computer Science and AI Laboratory.
Beth Rosenberg is a writer, editor, and journalist with fifteen years of experience in emerging technologies. She has written for the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, and the Christian Science Monitor, and edited a book for Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.