On Mon, 4 Sep 1995, Timothy C. May wrote:
From Bruce Sterling in "Islands in the Net" to various reports of data havens and Internet services being set up by actual people, there has been much speculation about using Caribbean islands for data havens.
But the infrastructure has been lacking. Low-bandwidth inter-island links. [...] Personally, I think a distributed system based on crypto is a more robust approach, the "Libertaria in Cyberspace" view I've talked about.
For legal purposes, perhaps, set up shop on the Islands. Then have a site somewhere else -- backup of your corporate system, nothing more. And, of course, a net connection -- all for redundancy's sake. If your Euro/American site is merely a mirror of a legal site in another country, and you're the same organization, would it be legal? Hmmmm... this all still needs work... Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lasser <jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu> (410)494-3072 Visit my home page at http://www.goucher.edu/~jlasser/ You have a friend at the NSA: Big Brother is watching. Finger for PGP key.