{"code":"9JKBGC","speakers":[{"code":"QLGWBL","name":"Iryna","biography":"Hello everyone, my name is Iryna. I was born in Ukraine, but I live in various parts of the world. I am a teacher, a senior specialist in IT security and GRC, and a lecturer in Media Philosophy, Media Sociology and Intercultural Communication.\r\n\r\nEnglish and German are not my native languages, but I take every opportunity in my daily life to speak, read and think in English (and German anyway).\r\n\r\nIf I were asked to write about my life, I would talk about growing up in a working-class family, religious discrimination, financial and social inequality, unequal access to education, the long and slow path to an academic degree, migration and integration.\r\n\r\nI’m more of a jack-of-all-trades with a wide range of interests; I get hooked on new things quickly, and I happily give 200 per cent when something catches my interest.\r\n\r\nIn my spare time – if I have any – I go bouldering or sometimes work shifts for the emergency medical service :)","avatar":"http://cfp.bsidesvienna.at/media/avatars/3-1_nRt0Rdv.jpg"}],"title":"Before There Was a Password — The Philosophy and Politics of Secrecy","submission_type":{"en":"Medium Talk"},"track":{"en":"Kleiner Saal (Workshops Track - 20 pax)"},"state":"confirmed","abstract":"\"Secrecy is not a technical problem with a technical solution — it is a social contract so old we've forgotten we signed it.\" \r\nBefore encryption. Before firewalls. Before the first wax seal was pressed into a letter — someone decided that some things should not be known by everyone. Why? \r\nThis workshop doesn't start with algorithms. It starts much earlier: with the question of why humans began keeping secrets at all, what social and cognitive machinery that required, and what it might mean to dismantle those categories entirely.","description":"","duration":45,"slot_count":1,"do_not_record":false,"is_featured":false,"content_locale":"en","slot":{"room":{"en":"Kleiner Saal (Workshops Track)"},"start":"2026-06-27T15:15:00+02:00","end":"2026-06-27T16:00:00+02:00"},"image":"http://cfp.bsidesvienna.at/media/bsidesvienna-0x7ea/submissions/9JKBGC/3-1_3BGf0PD.jpg","resources":[{"resource":"/media/bsidesvienna-0x7ea/submissions/9JKBGC/resources/Workshop_slides_sE0RT4T.pdf","description":"Workshop slides"}]}