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sph 5 hours ago

> Ever heard of Meredith Whittaker?

The fact that you name one makes her very rare indeed.

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tommydee 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

- Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the EFF

- Eva Galperin, Director of Cybersecurity at the EFF

- Runa Sandvik, formerly of Tor Project

- Yan Zhu, EFF Fellow and CISO at Brave

And many, many more.

It rankled me more than a bit that the author apparently looked around his bubble in Denmark and the FOSS community, saw no "tech sister" privacy advocates, and decided to paint with the widest brush possible and assume there are none anywhere.

	▲	busterarm 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Like half this list + Meredith are lawyers/policy people. Add in computer security specialists/operators. They use software as a tool to achieve political ends. "tech bros" in context of the article is pretty much referring to builders of software. The tech sisters who have built significant projects are indeed mythically rare. Names like Radia Perlman might be a better choice.

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girvo 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean I can point to a half dozen that I know personally but they’re not famous shrug. This seems like a weird argument to make to me, and besides the overall point the author was attempting to make anyway