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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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recent activity (10,537 total)
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Is there a decent overview of commercial adoption of Matrix? i.e. what are the top 10 biggest companies using Matrix, and is there a vehicle by which they could pay for some security audits and bug b…
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It might be that if someone has a hardware key which makes a sufficient attestation, you disable some OTHER supplemental authentication mechanism; like, if it says it requires a biometric, then you co…
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Ideally there would be a way to create "tickets" or something from an authenticator in advance and then use them for registration without physical access to the device. Then I could have 10…
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I'd be fine in steady state generally, but the "shift work" issue would make travel a pain (I often get 0200-0500 flights, etc.). I'd be wrecked for a week due to withdrawal heada…
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I try to do voice-only calls wherever possible, especially for hiring. (and text > voice!). Especially for initial screening; less annoying as the hiring manager, and also protects us somewhat from…
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People have tried this so many times and it always fails. It's a huge issue for going to/from Puerto Rico, due to 1) weather 2) shitty ground services 3) no land connection. My friend has …
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Yes but it means the OP is less likely to experience it.
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Most of the age discrimination I've ever seen has been anti-Boomerism, not specific fixed ages. i.e. it was "people over 30-40" 20 years ago, and now is basically mainly against people …
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It's pretty amazing how useful working with the military has been in changing my views of a lot of groups/demographics. I probably would have assumed nurses = female almost entirely, but the…
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You are using a third party to perform an action which at core is counter to how the Internet works, AND you are using the same third party who has acted in bad faith before and did exactly the same t…
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Wow. I'm actively in the market for this service for something but will never do business with HackerRank, as they continued to use the same horrible abusive DMCA agent after they did this back i…
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I think for most people on HN the answer is "contact a friend who works at Google"; I don't know the general solution.
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There's unusable for production (easy; just deleting software or configs would do that for a while!). There's "unusable for extracting information to re-create the tech" which is …
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This seems like a win/win. If Elon takes over Twitter and fixes it, we get free speech there (plus, product innovation!). If Elon is rejected, battle lines clearly drawn and hopefully many altern…
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I'd be amazed if there wasn't already a remote way to do this preconfigured. Getting advanced machines to destroy themselves through intentionally bad settings doesn't seem very difficu…
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I doubt cats have a substantially harder time surviving g-forces than humans. Smaller animal should be less affected; plus, commercial manned launch g-forces are going to be pretty low peak anyway. …
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My plan is to go to Mars with the first domestic pet cat; it implies a level of civilization/comfort/safety (to be able to have pets) which is consistent with what I'd want myself. May…
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We're also depleting geologic/fossil water like the Ogallala Aquifer far faster than recharge.
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This remains my favorite forum on the Internet without customizing things. Curated set of twitter or fb or other friends are pretty good too, but the new user experience without customization here is…
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Duracell used to be really good about replacing devices if their batteries leaked. They screwed me a couple years ago and refused to replace something (a $50 apple keyboard, I think they gave me $10 f…
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This sounds like some kind of incarceration or at best day care program, rather than actual learning. Unclear if that is the baseline for schools vs something specific to a Covid surge. I don’t have …
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Every time I buy the LG 5K I feel a little sad (it's overpriced for what it is, outdated, and limited with non-Macs), but every time I use it, I'm happy with the purchase. Biggest downside (…
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Thank you for showing up on Christmas to address this. Have a great holiday!
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This looks pretty cool (particularly that it's easy to use). If you're already using AWS you could just use nitro enclaves to do this directly, but this makes it easier to use, and easier to…
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I wish there were a way to "block" youtube channels. I feel similarly about this specific content source, but there are a bunch of others who are far worse on other topics.
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Same. Eventually (after 30-40?) they give you a link to turn off password resets attempts (or notifications of?) from devices you haven't logged on from in the past 90 days (I think?).
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> b) Iraq had no "weapons of mass destruction"; cite Hans Blix, others. I think that overstates the case. There was no good proof they did have those weapons, and a lot of stuff was fabr…
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I spent 6 years there, including some time "on the economy". Iran-Iraq War and Post-Gulf War 1 sanctions were each worse for Iraq than the 2003 invasion (by far). The various problems with …
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I'd love to see more innovation happening in this space. The one project I followed for a while seems to have stalled (or never really got off the ground) -- https://www.parsemus.org&#…
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I think it's a superset.