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, 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 in Iraq, several open source hosting and utility services, and OpenDBS, an anonymous electronic cash system. ^{[citation needed]} is the 76th day of the year (77th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... An entrepreneur (a loanword from French introduced and first defined by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon) is a person who operates a new enterprise or venture and assumes some accountability for the inherent risks. ... This article describes how security can be achieved through design and engineering. ... HavenCo Limited is a data hosting services company founded in 2000 which operates from Sealand, an unrecognised self-declared sovereign principality that occupies a man-made former World War II defensive facility originally known as Roughs Tower located approximately six miles from the coast of Suffolk, southeast England. ... A Data Haven is a place where data is supposed to be secure at all times. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Wired is a full-color monthly magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993. ... HavenCo Limited is a data hosting services company founded in 2000 which operates from Sealand, an unrecognised self-declared sovereign principality that occupies a man-made former World War II defensive facility originally known as Roughs Tower located approximately six miles from the coast of Suffolk, southeast England. ... The Principality of Sealand is a micronation located on HM Fort Roughs, a former Maunsell Sea Fort located in the North Sea 10 km (six miles) off the coast of Suffolk, England, in what is claimed as territorial waters using a twelve-nautical-mile radius. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...

Lackey was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania and has also lived in Southern California, Ohio, Oakland, Boston, Anguilla, London, Amsterdam, 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." This article does not cite any references or sources. ... “MIT” redirects here. ... The cypherpunks (from cipher and punk) comprise an informal group of people interested in privacy and cryptography who originally communicated through the cypherpunks mailing list. ... David Chaum Election People This box:      David Chaum is the inventor of many cryptographic protocols and has contributed to the advancement of electronic cash. ... Ian Avrum Goldberg (born March 31, 1973) is a Canadian cryptographer, entrepreneur, and cypherpunk. ... This article is about the year. ... HavenCo Limited is a data hosting services company founded in 2000 which operates from Sealand, an unrecognised self-declared sovereign principality that occupies a man-made former World War II defensive facility originally known as Roughs Tower located approximately six miles from the coast of Suffolk, southeast England. ...

See also

• ecash
• HavenCo

Ecash (or e-cash), short for electronic cash, is an electronic payment. ... HavenCo Limited is a data hosting services company founded in 2000 which operates from Sealand, an unrecognised self-declared sovereign principality that occupies a man-made former World War II defensive facility originally known as Roughs Tower located approximately six miles from the coast of Suffolk, southeast England. ...

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 H2K2 July 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

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