At 3:51 PM -0800 1/13/98, William Knowles wrote:
Isn't there a microstate off the coast of England called 'Sealand' run from a former oil rig/gun battery for the last 20 years?
What Lucky said. (And read up on the scam ^H^H^H^H scheme called "Oceania," the floating libertarian non-state. And Minerva, and so on.) ....
I agree completely, But there is still room for massively distrubted datahavens on oil rigs, barges, gun batteries, island nations or hiding in Norm's LAN in Cicero IL. All the harder to supress that information.
"Room for," certainly. "Economic incentive for," apparently not. Look, if you can wave a magic want and give us "massively distributed data havens on oil rigs, barges,....," I'll be the first to cheer. But the factors I described, and Lucky described, are why it would be a foolish investment for anyone to build even the first one, let alone the numbers you are contemplating. Wishing won't make it so. --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^2,976,221 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."