Everything about Ryan Lackey totally explained
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
DEF CON, 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. Lackey operates Blue Iraq, a communications and IT company serving the
DoD and
Iraqi domestic market in
Iraq.
Lackey was born in
West Chester, Pennsylvania and has also lived throughout the US and Europe,
Anguilla, Sealand, Dubai, and Iraq. As a teenager, he was briefly involved with the Globewide Network Academy. While a student at
MIT (he later dropped out) Lackey became 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 Lackey lived in the San Francisco Bay Area after a period in
Anguilla before moving to the unrecognized state of Sealand off the coast of the
United Kingdom and establishing
HavenCo. In December 2002, he left HavenCo following a dispute with other company directors and the Sealand "Royal Family."
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