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39,337karma·10,537submissions·July 8, 2008
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Working on stuff at the intersection of cryptocurrency and computer security. Also a Puerto Rico resident (Act 20/22); happy to help people move to Puerto Rico to take advantage of the federal tax exemption, 0% capital gains rate, and 4% business income tax rate. Also FFL07/SOT02.
Chief Security Officer for Evertas Insurance -- the world's first cryptoasset insurance carrier. https://evertas.com/
Previously, CEO and Co-Founder of CryptoSeal (YC S11), which was sold to CloudFlare on 2 June 2014. CISO/Board Member of Tezos Foundation 2018-2020.
Previous startup founder (HavenCo, a couple ecash projects, distributed colo, and DoD/Iraq contracting, new thing), too. Deeply interested in computer security, infrastructure, security, conflict zones, and making the world a better place.
Aside from living on a Caribbean island during crypto export controlled 1990s, I've lived on a tiny artificial platform in the North Sea, plus more reasonable places like London, Amsterdam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and spent 6 months diving in Thailand.
"I, the greengrocer XY, live here and I know what I must do. I behave in the manner expected of me. I can be depended upon and am beyond reproach. I am obedient and therefore I have the right to be left in peace."
Email: ryan@venona.com (etc) Twitter: @octal https://twitter.com/octal LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlackey
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Evertas Insurance | US-based REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.evertas.com/ | https://www.evertas.com/careers/ Evertas is the world's first cryptoasset insur…
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I'm mostly thinking about cases of a moderately limited incident, not complete all-out US vs USSR Cold War MAD countervalue exchange.
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Potassium Iodide. https://www.amazon.com/IOSAT-Potassium-Iodide-Tablets-Count/... …
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Wow, I actually didn't realize adult >40 was so much less indicated to take it than 18-40. I knew it was mainly an issue for children. I wonder if that's due to decreased thyroid activi…
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Yeah, bigger than I'd want to carry in the backpack I carry everywhere which also contains 1-2 laptops, trauma kit, etc. I'd just sacrifice whatever clothing was exposed when it happened. …
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One of my clients let me expense rifle armor + 10k rounds of ammo + etc for certain personnel for onsite security team. I love crypto. Another cache is in my retail gun shop (I'm a part-owner, n…
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I have a packet of KN94 in my pack (more for "required for compliance for covid" randomly happening, but also for this), and some gloves (nitrile 2x and 1x mechanicswear for shooting/cl…
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I carry a pack of KI in my EDC backpack and a second in my checked luggage. I figure with the amount of travel I do, my odds of having "shit pop off" when I'm traveling are pretty high…
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I'm hiring but I'm not sure if I'd post on whoishiring. I find hiring by recruiting specific people I know to be awesome to be much less pain than inbound.
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Private signal groups, mostly, or in-person conversations.
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Yeah -- especially given that skin itself isn't a great conductor, for it to feel like 9v on (even wet) skin vs. on your tongue, it's substantially more than a 9v battery...
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Multiple people in the military in Iraq died in shower trailers on bases (2003-2008) due to improper wiring. I went into one where you could detect current in metal walls (not in the shower area, but…
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No, I meant that the systematic elimination of the use of Slack is my next holy war/crusade/jihad objective after coming solving the mfa problem. (Team communications should be e2ee, with n…
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Going to wage jihad on everything less than FIDO2/WebAuthn in any org where I'm affiliated; previously people were pushing for using push-auth shit (e.g. Microsoft Authenticator) as an optio…
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I'd quit if I were working at a company which announced its layoffs like that and I somehow failed to get laid off.
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Also a bunch of early Twitter employees or their friends with low-follower Verified accounts. It's not consistent.
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The main significance here is "please hire the people we're letting go as if they were normal Patreon employees you'd want to poach; they weren't let go for performance or other in…
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It's great that they're supporting the lawsuit (and the plaintiffs seem very well selected). There's also a coincenter lawsuit on purely constitutional grounds ( https://www.c…
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Biggest issue with Signal IMO is that not enough people use it. (and, technically, the horrible dependency on PSTN addresses, but I don't expect the Signal foundation President to fix that). Som…
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I'm reasonably friendly with office cleaners at buildings where I have clients/etc (it's a way to practice my Spanish, plus I'm often there at odd hours, and it's a good way t…
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I assume a lot of of it is people with the latest/greatest gear for "prepper" use doing live-fire testing against hogs, not so much people buying gear solely for addressing hogs. (I ha…
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Blackwater was a bit different from most of the other contractors since they were working for State vs. DOD (along with Triple Canopy and DynCorp) and had tasking which was directly in support of case…
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The GP isn't "anonymous", he's a relatively well known field grade officer in the British military who has posted about his experiences publicly before.
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For me (never served in the military, but ran a contracting company operating in war zones for 5-10 years) 1: Priorities:
(a) Secure the town at all costs (not strictly "at all costs", but …
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I use bitwarden in corp/client environments but the mobile experience is inferior to 1Password. I wish Futo would pay for a great fully open source (and reproducible build, multiple competing ven…
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They lost their way a few years ago when they stopped supporting user synced vaults, relying on cloud services. Then, deprioritizing even iCloud/Dropbox backed synced vaults. With 1Password 8 t…
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The best thing about NHS (from my perspective as a US person, although I lived in the UK for a while) is the use of QALYS to allocate budget, rather than spending huge sums on a small number of interv…
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I don't really understand why "we" tolerate FDA regulating non-invasive medical devices at all.