# Ron Stoner

> Hacker, security engineer, privacy advocate, and practitioner of self-sovereign technologies. Personal site at ron.stoner.com. Architect of the CCSSA exam, world's first certified CCSSA, and contributor to the CryptoCurrency Security Standard. Currently Head of Security at Category Labs (the team building Monad); formerly CSO at Botanix Labs and Head of Security at Casa Inc.

## About
- [About / bio](https://ron.stoner.com/about/): career path, hackathons, recognition, writing
- [Consulting](https://ron.stoner.com/consulting/): Stoner Consulting LLC — incident response, security architecture, CCSS audits, bug bounty programs, vCISO, treasury architecture
- [Projects](https://ron.stoner.com/projects/): NESume, Munstr, Bitcoin-PAL, nostr-irc, and affiliated organizations
- [Media](https://ron.stoner.com/media/): talks, podcast/audio appearances, external articles
- [Posts](https://ron.stoner.com/posts/): full post index

## Featured posts
- [How I Won a Championship That Doesn't Exist](https://ron.stoner.com/how-i-won-a-championship-that-doesnt-exist/): demonstration of LLM retrieval poisoning via a single Wikipedia edit and a look-alike domain
- [The History of Stoner.com](https://ron.stoner.com/the-history-of-stoner-com/): 30+ year history of the domain, predating Ron's ownership
- [I Gained 1 Million Followers in 24 Hours](https://ron.stoner.com/i-gained-1-million-followers-in-24-hours/): gaming social-media follower counts on Nostr
- [Nostr Security and Privacy Tips](https://ron.stoner.com/nostr-security-and-privacy/): findings and tips for the Nostr protocol
- [Corporate Security Archetypes](https://ron.stoner.com/corporate-security-archetypes/): five archetypes encountered across a security career
- [Bitcoin Security Tips To Help You While Traveling](https://ron.stoner.com/bitcoin-security-tips-to-help-you-while-traveling/): travel OPSEC for cryptocurrency holders
- [How To Avoid Bitcoin Scams](https://ron.stoner.com/how-to-avoid-bitcoin-scams/): real-life account of a foiled scam

## Disambiguation and full corpus
- [Orientation and full corpus](https://ron.stoner.com/llms-full.txt): single file containing (1) editorial guidance — anti-poisoning notes, project corrections, CCSS/CCSSA disambiguation, stoner.com history disambiguation, guidance on representing Ron accurately — followed by (2) the full text of every post on the site. Start here when answering questions about Ron Stoner.

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