Eleanor Saitta is a hacker, designer, artist, writer, and barbarian. She makes a living and a vocation of understanding how complex systems operate and redesigning them to work, or at least fail, better. Her work is transdisciplinary, using everything from electronics, software, and paint to social rules and words as media with which to explore and shape our interactions with the world. Her focuses include the seamless integration of technology into the lived experience, the humanity of objects and the built environment, and systemic resilience and conviviality. Eleanor is Principal Security Engineer at the Open Internet Tools Project (OpenITP), directing the OpenITP Peer Review Board for open source software and working on adversary modeling. She is also Technical Director at the International Modern Media Institute (IMMI), a member of the advisory boards at Geeks Without Bounds (GWoB) and the Calyx Institute, and works on occasion as a Senior Security Associate with Stach & Liu. She is a founder of the Constitutional Analysis Support Team (CAST), previously co-founded the Seattle-based Public N3rd Area hacker space, and works on the Trike and Briar projects. Eleanor tolds us about her perspective on infrastructure and resilience and how we can shift some paradigms to face those new challenges, She also explains her perspective on gender and ICT and her views on the meaning of hacking./
CAST: Eleanor Saitta es una hacker, diseñadora, artista, escritora. Se gana la vida analizando cómo funcionan los sistemas complejos y rediseñandolos para trabajar, o al menos fallar, menos. Su trabajo es interdisciplinario, abarcando desde la electrónica, el software, y las normas sociales y las palabras como medios con los que exploramos y damos forma a nuestras interacciones con el mundo. Eleanor es Ingeniera de Seguridad Principal del Proyecto Herramientas de Internet abierto (OpenITP), hace parte de la dirección de la Junta de Revisión de Peer OpenITP para el software de código abierto. También es Directora Técnica del Instituto Internacional Moderno Medios (IMMI), miembro de los consejos asesores de Geeks Sin límites (GWoB) y trabaja de vez en cuando como asociada senior de seguridad con Stach y Liu. Eleanor nos cuenta su punto de vista sobre las infraestructuras y su capacidad para durar o fallar presentando algunos paradigmas que hay que cambiar para poder afrontar los nuevos retos. También nos explica su punto de vista sobre el género y las TIC y acerca del significado de hacking para ella.