Iryna
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.
English 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).
If 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.
I’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.
In my spare time – if I have any – I go bouldering or sometimes work shifts for the emergency medical service :)
Sessions
"Secrecy is not a technical problem with a technical solution — it is a social contract so old we've forgotten we signed it."
Before 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?
This 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.