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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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I went to Iraq despite being against the invasion (although very pro CIA/JSOC activities in Afghanistan in 2001, but anti Big Army stuff in Afghanistan -- I met some of the "first in" g…
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When I was in Iraq/Afghanistan 2004-2010, one of my favorite things was working with the military hospitals (I sold satcom to a variety of clients, including medical use for radiology, and then w…
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That was possibly the worst written tech article I’ve read in a while, despite generally agreeing with the premise of home Wi-Fi being important. I look forward to LLMs actually eliminating the bottom…
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This is amazing -- I've been a happy Beeper user for everything except iMessage and Signal until now, and this mostly kept me from using iMessage much at all. Congratulations to the team, and wow…
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There are repeaters on the cable every ~50-200km (depending on technology), powered by DC power carried on the cable. There are branching units powered the same way -- I believe they handle branching…
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I sort of enjoy things like this a a way to observe sales/manipulation tactics. Usually as long as you're committed to no-buy, you can give them a fun and totally fictional story about why, …
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FedEx famously got to within days of running out of money early on, and there is a story Fred Smith made payroll by taking the remaining cash to Las Vegas and gambling.
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Is there a website/etc for employee hiring?
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I just follow https://events.ccc.de/ The announcements are inconsistently made in English; usually it's up in German first (which is reasonable given it's a German org and m…
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It's a combination of virtue signaling/perceiving the risk to be higher than others perceive it to be (right or wrong; not commenting on the merits), and the long lead times/limited fin…
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Yeah, lots of hotels in the $100-160/night range in Hamburg especially during that time window. The Radisson (attached) is unfortunately pretty expensive, especially for a Radission Blu, but ver…
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Agree about scale making qualitative differences in events, but CCC has been happy operating at larger scale organizationally. I disagree with a lot of the organizational politics with CCC, but they&#…
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I hope it actually happens this year. 2022 where it was "definitely going to happen" and then cancelled was kind of sad.
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Blind signatures are totally different from hash chains.
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New cars come out every year, with minor updates, and big updates every 3-10 years ("generation"). I am still pretty happy driving a 2006 car. Maybe phones move toward that, but I like inc…
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Not just in billing, but also in implementation cost and general overhead. I actively avoid buying anything which requires talking to a salesperson to get basic service info; ideally one has something…
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That image (if it's the one circulating on twitter) is from years ago and not this event.
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For this “desert island” use case, a solar powered quartz watch seems like it would work the longest, of COTS options today (although a mechanical watch might be fine without servicing). Of course, my…
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The legal term in the NFA is "Silencer", and the original items were in fact called "Silencers".
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Yeah, I went this year and regret it; it's been getting worse but Covid really killed everything good about it.
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Stock up at the Whole Foods on the strip near the airport! I pick up my car at LAS, stop at the Whole Foods (which also has amazon package delivery), and then drive to my hotel. There's also a T…
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If anything changed, it's worse now. Any hotel which has an outsourced package delivery to an "in house business center run by (franchisee of ups/fedex) is generally going to be horribl…
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This would cross a line in the US where there would be 1A challenges, although there have been other stupid things accepted which are even more obviously unconstitutional. If they do this, I hope the…
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Yeah, I specifically meant the SPL Central location (I lived in Redmond, but didn't know about anything except SPL itself, and the two times I visited SPL were quite unpleasant so I gave up; I di…
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Wow. I wonder to what degree that's designed for Helsinki residents vs. visitors (from elsewhere in Finland or beyond) -- since it's located next to a few other tourist-centric places. I&#x…
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Not a lawyer nor even current on this, but from what I remember:
In most of the world, if you sell a book or other physical media, the original manufacturer can't put meaningful restrictions on y…
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Coming? This seems like it happened already in every place I've visited. We don't even have public libraries here in Puerto Rico, but in SF, Seattle, etc. they are largely...not targeted at …
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