Lance R. Vick
Security Engineer with over 20 years of experience in waiting on operating systems to compile. Former magician, PC repair tech, street entertainer, trucker, day laborer, telemarketer, web developer, tractor salesman, and burger flipper.
Best known for not owning a smartphone, compromising Japanese hotel robots, finding weak entropy flaws across widely used software, software supply chain security publicity stunts, social activism, and implanting random tech in his body.
Actual specialties include Linux infrastructure security, software supply chain security, cryptographic key management, hardware security modules, secure enclaves, remote attestation, vulnerability assessment & mitigation, PII protection, and web application hardening.
Founder of #!, a decentralized hackerspace, and Distrust, a FOSS-focused high-risk security engineering firm. Previously led sysadmin and security engineering efforts at Accesso, Pebble, BitGo, and Turnkey.
Talk to him about decentralization, social issues, mechanical puzzles, plants, weird animals, lockpicking, home manufacturing, homesteading, or anything even remotely related to security and threat modeling.
Relevant: https://distrust.co https://hashbang.sh https://lance.dev https://stagex.tools
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