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39,338karma·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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The more relevant thing is Amendment IV: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, an…
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1 (I also emailed them and was told "we can't give you legal advice"). I have the case IDs but my lawyer (Jennifer Granick; she is basically among the best in the world for this) has be…
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It is not clear it was done with a warrant. It may have merely been a subpoena for the account details but not really contents. Since FBI refuses to respond to me or my attorney (Jennifer Granick of A…
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Our best shot at ending the TSA security theater was when the Covid biosecurity theater started -- TSA lines seem optimized for contagion. We didn't then, so I don't think we ever will.
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I guess you can be somewhat brave here knowing that you can get a new job in about 5 minutes. You might want to consider making a principled stand here, though.
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(Thanks; I was searching under the CEO’s name and not IBM for some dumb reason; I blame lack of coffee.) Whoa.
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Email migration? I haven’t been following IBM very closely but a quick google search failed me here.
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The sad thing is Aukey makes pretty uniformly good products; I'd happily disclose that I'd received free products from them if they sent them to me and then write honest reviews (which would…
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The issue with depth is 1) you can't do a direct ascent to the surface past...18m or so?...with a high level of safety, for a large number of users, and from 30m or so (the recreational limit for…
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Apparently they don't do insta-nuke. "violate terms of service with elf"
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I am strongly against child abuse, but I really don't have a problem with a computer being forced to emit textual patterns which include English words correlated with something a human might call…
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I've done a few hundred dives (so, intermediate? with some additional certifications for deep/nitrox/rescue/divemaster) and the biggest problems I've had were 1) dropping a s…
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Dan was basically the best example of "infectious enthusiasm" combined with being really smart and interested in a lot of stuff. He was one of the first "security people" who got i…
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seems back up now.
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Yeah, some publications (esp NYT) hate linking off-site because it loses them reader-time. For the app: https://www.blockpartyapp.com/signup/ …
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I love services like these -- by having strong end-user read-side filtering, you can run services with less platform-level publication censorship. Platforms like Twitter have unique platform dynamics …
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There are plenty of publicly traded large security companies. They may not be the absolute best, but they're not going to screw you over. I would feel pretty comfortable calling G4S, Securitas, G…
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Goodreads has just generally been "sad" for a very long time. Even before the Amazon acquisition, the site has been slow, hasn't actually innovated in anything, and basically is the eq…
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The Zappos website now has a Steve Jobs-like tribute on the first page (as well as a banner), which seems appropriate given how amazing Hsieh has been (not merely founding Zappos, but the renewal of D…
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And land is measured in "spanish acres" as well (Cuerda).
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I think it's probably a function of how big the risks are to themselves vs. others (both relatively and absolutely). I don't think ocean yacht races are as dangerous to bystanders as pirate…
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Seems at least as bad as what got Microsoft consent decreed back in the 90s...
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RSA was already incapable of maintaining those standards.
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I remember using MicroVision laser headmounts back in 1998. It's kind of shocking how slow commercialization of this has been.
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Trezor is designed to protect against remote/logical attacks (including a compromised host). It isn't really hardware protected in any meaningful way against local access. This lets users …
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There's a bunch of stuff the US can do to a mostly-ally short of publicly threatening sanctions to get cooperation on international crime.
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Most satellite systems allow countries to block access. The first tier is refusing to sell to locals/local billing addresses (which is ALSO imposed by sanctions, e.g. due to USA, satcom vendors …
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Wouldn't it be optimal, assuming you don't want to sit next to someone, to pick a window/aisle toward the back of the aircraft?
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Could you take advantage of Google's geographic reach to try working from different offices (potentially on the same team, or different team)?