Mark Seiden

Summary

I'm good at problem solving, and my trustworthy expert friends sometimes help out. (We like Hard/Interesting Problems). Several simultaneous careers artfully approaching technology -- programming, risk, and security for >50 years in diverse environments -- at universities, research orgs, businesses, even in the movies (~10 years at Lucasfilm where we invented digital moviemaking). Meanwhile that Internet thing grew up around us. Projects including expert witness/forensics expertise in >50 civil and criminal matters, security at Internet Archive, incident response, advising startups, global infrastructure/physical security risk assessments, firewall management, and years of worrying about naming and numbering in the Internet. Specialties/interests: both information and physical security, computer crime, fraud, abuse, spam filtering/big email, trusted computing, system programming, content preservation, metadata, blockchain apps, attribution, stylistic analysis, figuring out whodunit and whatdeydid -- more generally finding practical solutions to difficult problems. I've also edited and fact-checked a dozen books (mostly computer science, history, but also poetry/poetics.) Current research side: With researchers at UC Santa Cruz, in Phase II development of a Rust-based secure USB storage device (running the Twizzler OS and Lethe file system), funded by DARPA. Also affiliated with the Columbia CS Department's security research projects. Prior to that developed and taught a distance learning graduate course in Operating System Security for UC Berkeley School of Information. Affiliate at Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), in National Academies studies (e.g. IT Modernization at the FBI; Policy and Ethical Considerations of Offensive Cyber), workshops (e.g. Ethics and Data Privacy considerations in International Research Agreements.) Looking for: book editing/writing projects, providing expert advice and testimony. Past careers: radio (WKCR), recording engineer (Aspen and Marlboro), sound, lights, music for dance/theatre, software to control a unique concert hall w. tunable acoustics @ IRCAM. My Erdos number is 3. Longstanding other interests: Food and cookery, wine, linguistics, piano and chamber music (between middle Beethoven to about 1960), mycology. I've also written a bit (e.g in Wired and NY Times), edited/fact-checked books (from an anthology of American Poetry+Poetics to technology, tech history and biography.) (There's a book in here, somewhere.)