Eleanor Saitta

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Thinking about security, failure, change, art, and living. Recruiting barbarians; complicate your narratives. Fractional CISO to startups via Systems Structure Ltd. HEL/NYC/LON
Work Mehttps://structures.systems/our-team
Personal Mehttps://dymaxion.org
Inside, the tourniquets and shears are immediately accessible and the rest of the trauma essentials are in a pullout for fast access; booboo kit and secondary stuff is in ziplocks, and the stuff in the pullout is held in place with elastic so the contents don't go flying when I open it.
Here's my IFAK, with a 15cm ruler for scale, which has all the nice to haves on it. You can go smaller, but this nicely clips on to my around town bag and doesn't scream "I'm carrying tactical medical" too loudly.

Unrelated to all the terrible things, even the most un-noticed fonts have fascinating and beautiful histories: https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/.

I still have my dad's Keuffel & Esser set, plus a couple of loose sticks of circuit diagram symbols

The hardest working font in Manhattan

A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

Thought I'd get in on the sticker posting thing
It's fun seeing new urban mobility infrastructure show up and get used — stopped for a minute by this battery-as-a-service hotswap station in Barcelona and saw a couple scooters and a minicar pull through. A standardized municipal system would be better, but it's a good start.

I have to say, this is the most damning discussion of quantitative security risk management I've seen in ages.

It also pretty much tracks with everything I've seen, with the exception of a few orgs that have had both massive resources for security work and the discipline to only measure real things that exist and make a difference to technical security outcomes, like "unsandboxed line-of-code executions per day".

You can read Colette Alexander's thesis here: https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9148570

Risky Business: Quantitative Risk Assessments as Enabling Devices in Cybersecurity | LUP Student Papers

Words to hopefully live by.
Finally.