Ryan Lackey
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Born | Ryan Donald Lackey March 17, 1979 West Chester, Pennsylvania |
Website | http://www.venona.com/rdl/ |
Ryan Donald Lackey (born March 17, 1979) is an
Early life
Lackey was born in
Career
In 1999 Lackey lived in the San Francisco Bay Area before moving to the self-proclaimed state of Sealand and establishing HavenCo. In December 2002, he left HavenCo, following a dispute with other company directors and the Sealand "Royal Family".
During the US conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Lackey operated BlueIraq, a VSAT communications and IT company serving the DoD and domestic markets in those countries. BlueIraq's business model eventually became economically unfeasible due to an escalation in anti-Western violence (primarily in the form of improvised explosive devices) and troop drawdowns. BlueIraq sought venture capital to transform itself into a large general consumer cellular telephone company, but the 2008 financial crisis and the instability of Iraq and Afghanistan made fundraising impossible.
Lackey returned to the US and located in San Francisco, where he worked for a number of start-up companies before applying to
In 2017, he began working as Chief Security Officer for the Tezos Foundation in support of the Tezos blockchain.[3] According to his LinkedIn profile, Lackey left that position in November of 2020, and as of 2021 is employed at a crypto-related insurance company in Puerto Rico.[3]
See also
Footnotes
- ^ Williams, Alex. "CryptoSeal Offers VPN As A Service For All That Secure Data You Risk When Using The Coffee House Wi-Fi". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
- ^ "CloudFlare Acquires CryptoSeal". Archived from the original on January 5, 2015. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b "Ryan Lackey on LinkedIn". LinkedIn. Retrieved 3 May 2022.[self-published source]
External links
- HavenCo
- Ryan Lackey's personal site
- Answers From Sealand: CTO Ryan Lackey Responds July 3, 2000
- Welcome to Sealand. Now Bugger Off July 2000
- Avi Freedman and Ryan Lackey gave a talk about HavenCo at H2K2July 13, 2002
- DefCon 11 Talk about HavenCo August 3, 2003
- Has 'haven' for questionable sites sunk? August 4, 2003.
- Wiring the War Zone: Blue Iraq September 2005
- Blood, Bullets, Bombs, and Bandwidth 2005