Who's the person behind the practice?

Linda trained first as a food engineer and scientist: soil, genetics, ecology, formulation science, quality management, the unglamorous plumbing of how food actually gets made and kept safe. Then political science and veterinary public health together, in a program built for people who needed to understand both how policy gets made and what happens inside the animals, environments and people it eventually touches.

She moved from the ground, in rural France, where people's hands get dirty, to the EU bubble in Brussels, where people try very hard to keep theirs clean. She came out of it with a real skepticism: about the gap between how a rule gets drafted, argued over by lobbyists and policymakers in a room, and the actual resources of the person expected to implement it.

She has also built things nobody asked her to build, including a European youth programme from scratch, because she thought it should exist and then made it exist.

Somewhere alongside all of this: writing, poetry, singing, a taste for the cinematic. That's not a hobby bolted onto the science, it's the reason any of this gets translated into something a person can actually feel, rather than another PDF nobody reads.

More recently, an interest in security thinking, threat models, attack surfaces, the idea that a system doesn't secure itself just because it should. That's less a credential than a lens, but it's the lens that gave the practice its name.

Depending on the week, she is a scientist, a bureaucrat's nightmare, a poet, or an aspiring ethical hacker.