At 3:38 PM -0400 on 9/7/98, Robert Hettinga wrote about Ryan Lackey's whereabouts, on cypherpunks:
If I told you, I would have to kill you?
Whew. Glad Ryan has now said something publically now about his and Ian's bit of extraterritorial subtrifuge (though Ian doesn't qualify, of course). I mean, I just *hate* keeping secrets... ;-).
As secrets go, this was not a big one... The main thing that is meant to be confidential was the nature and names of our clients, and under normal business practice, they hold the option(s) on PR. I don't think anyone should need to die to protect that, as even then, their main issue is (probably) not revealing a relationship with a product until it did what they wanted.
Frankly, I *really* have a hard time with all this man-without-a-first-world-country, crypto-expat stuff.
Well, it's not *quite* like that. The US was seriously considered, but Ryan's offer of a fraternity bedroom/office, T1 or no T1, was not as attractive as some time in the sun. After all, FC came to Anguilla for good reasons. Also, there are other sites under long term consideration, not in the US, but in other cool places. The main reason for considering these sites is that they make business sense; and they are definately cool. Maybe we'll keep the details to ourselves until they are vapour-compliant. It should be mentioned that the contagion properties of renouncement are somewhat less than epidemic. Vince decided to "do the deed," but others are not exactly leaping for their passports and Lonely Planet guides. In fact, most of the at-risk group here are still swearing by the bible and running up the flag every morning, just in case anybody gets the wrong idea. Or at least that's what it seems like to those of us immunised at birth. iang