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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 [[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 [[Principality of Sealand|Sealand]]. Lackey operated BlueIraq, a [[Very-small-aperture terminal|VSAT]] communications and IT company serving the [[United States Department of Defense|DoD]] and domestic markets in [[Iraq]] and [[Afghanistan]] during the US conflicts.

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. Lackey attended [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] and majored in Course 18 (mathematics). While a student at MIT (he later dropped out due to financial constraints) 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 "[[cypherpunk]]s" and "dbs", and eventually implementing patented [[David Chaum|Chaumian]] [[digital cash]] in an underground library, HINDE, with [[Ian Goldberg]], named after [[Hinde ten Berge]], a Dutch cypherpunk also present at FC98. In part, he contributed to the cypherpunks movement as one of the longest [[Anonymous remailer]] operators.

In 1999 Lackey lived in the San Francisco Bay Area after a period in [[Anguilla]] before moving to the unrecognized state of [[Principality of Sealand|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".

Eventually, BlueIraq's business model became economically unfeasible due to an escalation in anti-western violence primarily in the form of [[Improvised Explosive Device]]s and troop draw downs. BlueIraq sought [[venture capital]] to transform itself into a large general consumer cellular telephone company. However, the 2008 financial crisis and the instability of Iraq and Afghanistan made fund raising impossible.

Lackey returned to the US and located in San Francisco where he worked for a number of start-up companies before applying to [[Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator]]. He was accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2011 round. Lackey founded CryptoSeal, a VPN as a service start-up with a small group of people well known in the computer security community, and secured funding from [[Ron Conway]] and a well known venture capital fund. In June 2014, CryptoSeal was acquired by [[CloudFlare]].

==Source==

[http://wikipedia.org/ http://wikipedia.org/]

[[Category:People of the industry]]
[[Category:Security]]
==See Also on BitcoinWiki==
* [[Safe Haven]]
* [[CryptoHawk]]
* [[TuurnT]]
* [[Kuende]]
* [[Paragon Coin]]

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