Kim Zetter is an American freelance journalist in Oakland, California. She has written on a wide variety of subjects from the Kabbalah to dining out in San Francisco to Israel to cryptography and electronic voting, and her work has been published in newspapers and magazines all over the world, including the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Jerusalem Post, San Jose Mercury News, Detroit Free Press, and the Sydney Morning Herald. She has been a staff reporter at Wired, a writer and editor at PC World, and a guest on NPR and CNN.

She is probably best known for her reporting for Wired News, where she has written over 100 articles. Some of her work, such as that dealing with the security problems of electronic voting machines,and public interest in the CIA's Kryptos sculpture,[http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66334,00.html introduced stories that were not covered by the mainstream press until months later. Her 2003–2004 series of articles on electronic voting won several awards, and she was shortlisted for the prestigious Investigative Reporters and Editors Award.

Zetter has interviewed and written about many notable people including sculptor James Sanborn (creator of the CIA's Kryptos sculpture),Ed Scheidt (Chairman of the CIA's Cryptographic Center),Mike Lynn (about the Cisco scandal in 2005), Australian film director Baz Luhrmann,[http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/10/17/1034561264479.html" target="_blank" >^* United States Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh (creator of the Patriot Act), and the famous cryptographer Bruce Schneier.[http://pcworld.about.com/news/Sep282001id63806.htm

Though born in the United States, she got her start as a journalist in Israel, when she was living there for three years. Some of her first articles were written for the Jerusalem Post. She speaks English and Hebrew, and her book on the Kabbalah has been published in multiple languages.

Selected articles

• Three minutes with Jeff Moss, April 3, 2001, PC World (interview with the founder of the Def Con and Black Hat security conferences)
• Baz brings bohemians to the Bay, October 18, 2002, The Age: Melbourne, Australia
• Can you hear my accent?, September 27, 2003, The Age (about Australian writer John Murray)
• Time to Recall E-Vote Machines?, October 6, 2003, Wired News
• Did E-Vote Firm Patch Election?, October 13, 2003, Wired News
• How E-voting Threatens Democracy, April 2, 2004, Wired News
• Solving the Enigma of Kryptos, January 26, 2005, Wired News
• Why Racial Profiling Doesn't Work, August 22, 2005, Salon.com

Awards

• 2005, Investigative Reporters & Editors, Finalist, Online category (E-voting series)^*
• 2005, Maggie Award (Magazine Publishing Industry), Best Web Article/Consumer, "How E-Voting Threatens Democracy" ^*
• 2000, ASBPE (American Society of Business Publication Editors), National Silver Award, Best Original Web Feature ("What Makes Johnny - and Jane - Write Viruses?")^*
• 2000, ASBPE, West Coast Bronze, Best Feature Story ("Spam! How It Happens and How to Beat It" -- edited)^*

Books

• Simple Kabbalah: A Simple Wisdom Book, 2000, Conari Press, ISBN 0785815112 (hardback), ISBN 1573241709 (paperback)
• Cabala: para Viver com Sabedoria no Mundo Moderno, 2005, Nova Era, ISBN 8577010082
• Lonely Planet Out to Eat: San Francisco, Lonely Planet Publications, ISBN 1740692700 (2002 edition), ISBN 1864500840 (2000 edition)

References

• Kim Zetter stories at Wired.com
• Biography page at Conari Press

External links

• "Tools: Free Stuff online", CNN, Sci-Tech, March 10, 2001 transcript (Kim Zetter's story)
• "Activist group to sue E-voting firm", NPR, November 3, 2003 (Kim Zetter is one of those interviewed)
• Invisible Ballots, 2004 video documentary in which Kim Zetter appears
• "Credit Cards That Don't Swipe", NPR (Kim Zetter, guest), May 24, 2005

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