Ryan Lackey
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Ryan Donald Lackey (born March 17, 1979) is an entrepreneur and computer security professional. He was a co-founder of HavenCo, the world's first data haven. He also speaks at numerous conferences and trade shows, including DefCon, RSA Data Security Conference, on various topics in the computer security field, and has appeared on the cover of Wired Magazine, in numerous television, radio, and print articles on HavenCo and Sealand, and is involved with several book and movie projects. Lackey's current projects include operating a communications and IT company serving the DOD and Iraqi domestic market for Blue Iraq, several open source hosting and utility services, and OpenDBS, an anonymous electronic cash system. He is also establishing carrier-neutral telco hotel facilities, or aggregating existing facilities, to expand metacolo.
Lackey was born in Pennsylvania and has also lived in Southern California, Ohio, Oakland, Boston, Anguilla, London, Amsterdam, and Sealand. As a teenager, Ryan was briefly involved with the Globewide Network Academy. While a student at MIT (he later dropped out) Ryan become interested in electronic cash and distributed systems, originally for massively multiplayer online gaming. This interest led to attending several conferences (Financial Cryptography 98, various MIT presentations), participating on mailing lists such as "cypherpunks" and "dbs", and eventually implementing patented Chaumian digital cash in an underground library, HINDE, with Ian Goldberg, named after Hinde ten Berge, a Dutch cypherpunk also present at FC98. In 1999 Ryan lived in the San Francisco Bay Area after a period in Anguilla before moving to the self-declared unrecognised state of Sealand off the coast of the United Kingdom and establishing HavenCo. In winter 2002 (Northern Hemisphere), he left HavenCo following a dispute with other company directors and the Sealand Royal Family.
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References:
- HavenCo (http://www.havenco.com/)
- The Official Principality of Sealand Homepage (http://www.sealandgov.org/)
- Has 'haven' for questionable sites sunk? (http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5059676.html?tag=fd_top) August 4, 2003.
- DefCon 11 Talk about HavenCo (http://www.metacolo.com/papers/dc11-havenco/)
- DefCon 11, 2003: HavenCo: What Really Happened (http://chris.nodewarrior.org/reviews/DefCon11/Lackey.html)
- Avi Freedman and Ryan Lackey gave a talk about HavenCo (http://www.h2k2.net/panels.html#sealand) at H2K2