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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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recent activity (10,537 total)
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This would be great for KVM server consoles!
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I would love to participate in an open, transparent, and fair equivalent to wikileaks. Currently, cryptome actually does a 99% job of this. Tools, vs. Services, and definitely in preference to indivi…
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We do this in limited areas already -- there's razor wire and other "obviously dangerous" stuff protecting power substations, subways, power plants, etc. DoE-mandated security contractors will use le…
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Invest in the 280M uniques, not in the guys.
Put the "Francis M. H. White of Monetization" in as CEO, let the founders be involved in other roles (they're great at building a community and at "ghetto"…
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Is there any actual synergy at all with the rest of Conde Nast? Would it make sense for Reddit to work with some P.E. people to buy themselves out, and make a venture investment in improving the site…
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Unmarked minefields, or air-scattered mines of infinite duration, are the bad kind. A well-marked, time-limited or centrally controlled minefield is generally much less dangerous, on par with a razor-…
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For a consumer web app, I would split it into a Product Designer (someone who can do art, UI design, product concept, workflow, html/css/js), and a developer (who does some js, all server side work, a…
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I believe weev has some kind of negative history with EFF.
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Non-disclosure, vs. Responsible disclosure, vs. Full disclosure (with various levels of warning to the vendor), vs. Aggressive full disclosure is certainly an open point of debate within the security …
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He's being denied legal counsel for the drugs charges -- according to the letter, they are all minor misdemeanors, although originally he was alleged to have felony weight on him. That's actually a v…
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The problem with "responsible disclosure" is that a vendor can convince you not to disclose at all -- they can drag out the process of patching for months, and can try to convince you never to release…
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I agree -- he has definitely not helped his credibility in defending himself from some "fruit of the poisonous tree" drug charges resulting from an illegal search warrant. There is a reason why test c…
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The whole "goatse" thing is part of the performance art. Hacker groups have a long history of over the top stuff like that -- look at the Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc), Phone Losers of America, Legion o…
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I think it's shameful that no one has stepped up to provide him with free, top notch legal assistance. I'm relatively familiar with the case (I know weev personally, too), and he is actually not exag…
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If someone can say no, they do not need the Heimlich -- at worst, they have a partially occluded airway, in which case using a finger to try to sweep the object out, or turning the person face down …
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One of the biggest reasons solo founder projects fail more than multiple founder companies is that a multi-founder company has already passed some tests of market, product, and team. If an idea is inc…
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I do not see Python listed here, I believe you should update your poll. :)
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While the VAT is the least distorting tax, I really dislike the extensive documentation required throughout the economy to implement it. I would prefer a tax on the easiest to audit things -- real est…
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I think the Kindle DX would also be a more fair comparison to the iPad (especially the new, twice the contrast ratio DX). I have both, and actually use both. I would probably go with DX and Netbook i…
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This definitely makes me miss the plastic WebVan crates (I think I accumulated >40 of them).
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The info I have is that the granules are mainly to ease mechanical processing. Given that ld50 of anhydrous caffeine USP is above 100mg per kilo of body weight, I do not think a few grams, especially…
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I think this is the best content on Quora to date.
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I believe you mean nicotine...I have observed friends taking 10 kilograms of food grade caffeine microballs and weighing and bagging in 500 mg doses to distribute at a hacker convention, with no adver…
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NYC specifically has a large number of attractive women for the same reason LA does: a lot of industries based in the city which employ and are built on attractive women. There are people working ser…
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People who smoke (or use chewing tobacco) are much more likely to spit.
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Unless you are doing a lot of extra (expensive) magic, I could easily do:
1) Traffic analysis of your read/write patterns -- probably not a huge issue for many web apps, but there are enterprise apps …
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As an attacker of (...) intelligence, key management is the place I look first in security protocols for failures, because both lay developers and crypto engineers tend to make more mistakes there tha…
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El Bulli is not actually that expensive for the meal itself ($250/person?), but it's impossible to get a reservation. Since they announced they will be closing and turning into a cooking school in 20…
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Generally, if you set auto-rebuild, yes. It's RAID5 though, so you're only protected from single drive failures. I use RAID6 on Areca cards (or better) for "critical" data, or remote servers -- sing…
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I knew from other people that the Drobo was worthlessly slow, but thanks for the info about the other problems. I'm a big fan of either building a linux-based server, or using a QNAP. QNAP is a bit p…