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39,335karma·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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Obvious archive link: https://archive.is/jmaXN
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I know both of them somewhat (I was in Ilya's YC batch!) and I'm completely inclined to believe this article/statement to be accurate -- especially since it matches what the federal cou…
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The requirement in the contract is nowhere near that specific. Contact info validation is sufficient for almost all registrars. It's possible a given registry has higher standards, or maybe one…
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I would use it for flights where the best flight is pretty obvious, or in cases where satisficing is fine. I'd tbh mostly use it when OTHER PEOPLE ask me to find a flight for them. I'd also…
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Wow.I book a lot of flights, often waste a huge amount of time find the best flight, and would use this for a lot of the easier bookings. I was amazed at how well it works (in the simulator). Google F…
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For a long time they were the leader in confidential computing and a few other specific things.
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Definitely a lot of value in a drone/balloon/etc. fleet to 1) restore communications using satellite + mesh 2) overhead imagery for direct support of rescue/recovery/rebuilding 3) …
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Curious what the specific connection between ultra-pure quartz and nuclear weapons is.
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If the recommissioning requires 20% of the work of new-build (in time and money), I'd rather have the "normal" 50-100% overrun in costs and time happen on recommissioning vs new-build. …
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Solving the political problems behind nuclear power (getting TMI restarted being one of the more difficult politically but easier technically), and generally bringing the "build more nuclear"…
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Wow. AI has already accomplished more positive in a few years of big commercial stuff (admittedly as a side effect) than cryptocurrency has since, say 2009. :(
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Would be fun to do "smart clays" -- I wonder if you could make a clay which just shifted weights to affect flight path, something cheaper thna a full drone. Or you could fly a $300-500 non-…
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Yes, almost certainly HA was running a POCSAG network.
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Assuming you aren't joking: Pagers are receive-only, which is why they'd use them in preference to cellphones, which transmit even when just idling to register on cells.
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Seems more likely their explosive implant used a separate RF trigger -- makes the whole thing much simpler for them, less detectable. They could run a plane or drone overhead to send the radio initia…
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Their visible cameras are $7k, I'd be surprised if this is less than $15k. Assuming the Berlin patents have expired, a visible light or "night vision" near IR camera made from commodity…
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Passkey support (I know it's a pain) would be great...
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I went a few months ago -- was amazing how much better the Museum of Computing was, given it obviously had a tiny budget compared to Bletchley. Bletchley was mostly a bunch of school groups being bore…
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Having done startups in the national security space (and had to deal with clearances) -- it's a bad system from both directions -- overly onerous compliance for good people AND ineffective at add…
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For US and especially Las Vegas events: usually the venue has their own professional security staff, some with law enforcement status of some kind, mostly with just security guard accreditation, some …
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I don't understand how volunteer, non-sworn officer, non nevada licensed security guards (volunteer "goons", who are just private citizens at a private event in a public convention cent…
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Nuclear stuff uses more mechanically robust things like solder with a wire brush run through it and photographed over screws/joints. (Also lol I did the 2013 glitter nail polish talk w Eric Micha…
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DoE (Sandia iirc) was the premier defensive seals lab in the US but shortly after 9/11 they removed most of their open documentation from the internet. CIA has the main seals defeat capability in…
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That is one of the more clear (and opinionated, but IMO correct) summaries of how we got here that I've seen -- thank you! Another aspect are all the cartel-like programs of banks overall (and th…
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How is discouraging people who don't actually need an ER from showing up at an ER a bad idea? If I have something urgent but not an emergency, I could either do ER or Urgent Care. If I'm pr…