She refused to answer almost all questions regarding her personal life, except that she had been brought up in Belgium by American parents, and is currently living back in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she works as a programmer and system administrator. Always the same stupid question. There are a lot of dirty names for people like me, but I don't care. From what you said about the Cyberfeminist International, I conclude that you are mostly interested in the political aspects of information technology. Every aspect of information technology is political.
Hackers are the spearhead of a new form of resistance.
They have an enormous political potential, although most of them aren't aware of it. In the mid-'90s, the group Critical Art Ensemble published a book called Electronic Civil Disobedience. The basic assumption of the book is that power and its representations are no longer located in the real world but have been shifted onto the Net. That's why the resistance against power has also got to take place within the Net. The model CAE developed transfers civil disobedience from real life to the virtual world.